" The charming sobriquets that we give our cities - the Big Apple, City of Angels, Baghdad-by-the-Bay, Windy City - are nothing more than picture-book thinking for the benefit of tourists and the child-minded. The terse reality is that the city as we know it and live it is a profit scheme, and future dominated by charter cities built on digital operating systems created by giant corporations will only make the scheme more insulting and inexorable. The charter city is not a home; it is a corporate mandate. "

― Curtis White , We, Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data