I keep seeing new Neom ads for something called Trojena. I guess it’s the third element in the imaginarium after The Line and Oxagon. Something really fascinatingly hypermodernist-grotesque about whatever MbS is trying to do here.
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I’d like to see real photos of what’s there now. Wikipedia is only slightly helpful.
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They’ve relocated a tribe of 20k people and killed one in the process. Par for the course for these things. It’s some mix of smart city, special economic zone, and idiosyncratic sci-fi larp. It’s like how a mega-rich Bond villain gazillionairre does premium-mediocre futurism.
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Normally I’d predict a big-bang authoritarian-high-modernist start followed by years of neglect and unraveling into a cyberpunk dystopia. But there’s enough money at work here — 500B, something more than Dubai++ might be brute-forced through.
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