Concerns Over Fifteen-Minute Cities

Well, a fifteen-minute city means basically a

neighborhood where you can

reach everything you need within a fifteen-minute foot walk.

A doctor, grocery store, and so forth.

However, if you now fancy another store and it

does not happen to be in your neighborhood, you won't be going to

that store

anymore. Total control is what we're talking about.

Once they decide you're no longer allowed to leave your

fifteen-minute immediate area, they don't have to fence it in or

anything. It will be done via digital ID.

With the social credit system kind of-

Something like that

... maintaining compliance.

Yes. And there's pilot projects already going

on in Bologna, it's

called the Bologna Wallet, and in Vienna it's called the Vienna

Token. It's voluntary for now, and it's only

pretty much enticing people to get some ticket for a little

less or something like that to go to theater,

something like that.

But soon there will be a time you don't have a choice anymore.

You have to have this digital green certificate, this QR code,

whatever, and then they will tell you where you can

go, what

you can do, and what you can and cannot do.