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Saudi Arabia’s City of the Future
Dreaming the impossible dream: A 10,000 square-mile mega-city, with flying cars and an artificial moon, powered by renewable energy.
Imagine a city with more robots than people; where flying cars shoot through a night sky adorned by an artificial moon and the beaches glow in the dark.
“The future has a new home.” Or perhaps, home has a new future.
Meet the proposed city of “Neom”, a combination of the Greek word (Neo) and the Arabic word (Mostaqbal) meaning “New Future”: An independent economic zone, a technological proving ground of epic proportions, and the ambitious brainchild of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In 2017, the Saudi Crown Prince announced a $500 billion dollar project geared toward reducing Saudi Arabia’s over-dependence on fossil fuels and the fossil fuels market; an enormous mega-city.