Alan Watt - Redux #217 "BIT and City of Pigs" - 6/29/25

What is going on in your area with Smart City infrastructure? - Cass Sunstein (Nudge) and his wife Samantha Power (USAID, former US ambassador to United Nations) - Plato's Republic. What is a "healthy city"? - Alan Watt "BIT:
Free Thought Buster, Opinion Adjuster" - Part 2, Sept. 9, 2018 - Creating Internet Addiction - Planned Global Society - Please Visit My Websites to Order Books and Discs and to Donate - Cities are a Trap - Nudged and Guided into Conforming - What is Freedom? - We're Given Front Men, Stars - The Elite are Unconventional - The Pettiness of Humans - If Voting Worked it Would've Been Banned - Cyborg Technology - Celebrity, Power - Every Year Countless Studies are Done on the Public - Very Easy to Change Society - Bernays - Behaviourists Design Curriculum and Teacher's Toolkits - Aldous Huxley Talked about Techniques that Would Change People's Behaviour in Ways that Wouldn't Be Good for Them - BIT, Behavioural Insights Team - Behavioural Insights (BI) is Global, with Over 200 Teams Working in Countries around the World - BIT Works with Doctors to Discourage Them from Prescribing Antibiotics - Euthanasia, Do Not Resuscitate - Frankenfoods - Google, Alphabet, DeepMind - Agenda 21 - Jigsaw - Documentary, The Weight of Chains - Cass Sunstein - Canada's Behavioural Insights Group (BIG) - Uniformity - The Final Frontier is Your Mind.

Hey, the singularity is like, five years away - by Not Sure
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Hey_the_singularity_is_like_five_years_away.htm

Israel-Iran peace: Trump's motivation for holding ceasefire is a Nobel Prize legacy - opinion
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-859280

Smart Grids and AI: How Israel is Powering the Future of Electricity
https://israeltrade.org.au/2025/03/14/smart-grids-and-ai-how-israel-is-powering-the-future-of-electricity/

Iran’s smart city initiatives
https://trendzmena.com/irans-smart-city-initiatives-issue3/

Smart Grid: Ukraine on the path to an energy revolution
https://ua-energy.org/en/posts/29-05-2025-cd75a12f-f41d-4cb2-a166-126cc1e7ab7c

Agenda 21: The UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/agenda-21-un-sustainability-and-right-wing-conspiracy-theory/

Smart Dallas Roadmap
https://www.dallascityhall.com/departments/ciservices/smart-cities/DCH%20Documents/Smart-Dallas-Roadmap.pdf

Texas Smart Cities: Pioneering Tech-Driven Urban Development for Enhanced Living
https://texastoday.com/texas-smart-cities-pioneering-tech-driven-urban-development-for-enhanced-living/

The Dangers in Smart Cities
https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2019/09/dangers-smart-cities/159617/

How ransomeware attacks on 23 Texas sites changed the way cyber criminals operate
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/how-ransomeware-attacks-on-23-texas-sites-changed-the-way-cyber-criminals-operate/

The cost of compute: A $7 trillion race to scale data centers
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/the-cost-of-compute-a-7-trillion-dollar-race-to-scale-data-centers

AI could drive $6.7 trillion investment in data centers, maybe, claims McKinsey
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ai-could-drive-67-trillion-investment-in-data-centers-maybe-claims-mckinsey/

AI power: Expanding data center capacity to meet growing demand
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-power-expanding-data-center-capacity-to-meet-growing-demand

Global data center electricity use to double by 2026 - IEA report
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/global-data-center-electricity-use-to-double-by-2026-report/

Behavioural Insights Team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team

Nudge theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory

Cass Sunstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein

Samantha Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power

BIT New York
https://www.bi.team/bit-offices/us/

BX is coming back to London for 2019 – Behavioural Insights Team
https://www.publicsectorblogs.org.uk/2018/07/bx-is-coming-back-to-london-for-2019-behavioural-insights-team/

Is there a healthy intersection to leverage between food industry and public health interests?
https://ncdalliance.org/news-events/blog/is-there-a-healthy-intersection-to-leverage-between-food-industry-and-public-health-interests

Google's Complex Relationship With DeepMind Gets Exposed
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/04/20/googles-complex-relationship-with-deepmind-gets-exposed/

Google Jigsaw
https://jigsaw.google.com/

Conversation AI
https://github.com/conversationai

The Weight of Chains - documentary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_of_Chains

Dan Doctoroff on how we’ll realize the promise of urban innovation
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/dan-doctoroff-on-how-well-realize-the-promise-of-urban-innovation

Behavioral Policy
https://behavioralpolicy.org/

Public Health Agency of Canada
Health, Attitudes, and Behavioural Insights Tracker Survey (HABIT)
https://impact.canada.ca/en/good-data/habit

Integrating the next generation: how school
composition affects inter-ethnic attitudes
https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/89943/1/politicsandpolicy-integrating-the-next-generation-school.pdf

Antimicrobial Resistance and BI – What’s Next?
https://www.bi.team/blogs/amr-and-bi-whats-next/