ElonMuskisBuildinga$20BCityinAfrica

By Complexob7 Admin Dawn staff: Article edited for clarity

ELON MUSK HAS just announced his plans to build an entirely new city in Africa. Musk’s vision is to create an inclusive community where residents have access to sustainable housing, free universal health care, and free education at the university level.

The Southern African government has approved Elon Musk’s plan to build his own city in Africa. The city will be located within the country of Botswana about seven miles away from Gaborone, the capital of Gaborone. With an estimated population of around 1 million people.

Elon Musk is thinking big, really big. By planning to build his own city, he is trying to solve some of Africa’s biggest problems by building a smart city.

He wants to create a solar-powered city that has renewable energy and he plans on making it 10 times bigger than the current cities in both population and scale…

Name Of Elon Musk’s New City

Elon plans on calling it Neo Gardens and hopes to get construction started as soon as possible.

Neo Gardens will be a green paradise but 8 million square feet of park space, 25% less open space than other cities because Elon doesn’t want space wasted away with concrete roads or parking lots but instead thinks everyone should live within walking distance from everything they need.

Construction Process in Elon Musk’s New City

Elon plans on doing everything for his new city through machines and robots so that means you won’t see any construction crews working there at all. These machines will take soil samples so Elon can plan where to build first.

Then when it’s ready, building components like glass, windows, or furniture can be produced locally before anything else is assembled. So the logistics are incredibly efficient. You’ve heard Elon Musk has launched rockets into space and made electric cars affordable for everyone.

Elon Musk is an entrepreneur that does things differently. Elon plans on using drones, small flying objects equipped with sensors that fly around part of town looking for any malfunctions.

The main focus of Elon Musk’s new city is sustainability. It’ll have rooftop gardens with many trees growing throughout the entire city. Elon said this project was my baby and that was enough reason for him to spend 18 million dollars of his personal fortune on it.

Why is Elon building his own city?

Elon Musk is building his own city. Well, it sounds like something straight out of science fiction it’s actually not. Right now on Twitter, he has been tweeting about potentially building his own city on Mars.

However, what really means to say is that he’s going to build a city here on earth and make sure it works with modern technology and his sustainable energy…

Elon Musk is known for making bold moves but in the entire city, that seems like too big of a challenge for most human beings, especially one man singlehandedly. But Elon Musk proves us wrong once again.

A news report from Bloomberg states that he’s actually looking into building an entire city based entirely around renewable energy sources such as solar power. Elon Musk does love cities though. At least that’s what he said during a Ted Talk back in 2010.

When he made claims about cars being inefficient and how they were bad for the environment because they produced carbon dioxide. Elon sees it as his duty to do whatever he can personally to reduce global warming and sees electric cars as better than combustion engines

So why is Elon Musk building his own city in Africa?

Well, it turns out [he] wants to tackle one of his regrets head on which is ending world poverty. It has huge potential to lift humanity up. So let’s take a really big step and not assume anyone will follow.

You know Elon Musk isn’t just thinking about building a city in Africa for **** and giggles. He actually believes it will lift humans up out of poverty and give them hope for their futures.

Plus it may end up doing away with corruption too. Today it’s estimated that over eight hundred million people live in extreme poverty across our planet. Elon Musk wants to change that. Elon Musk hopes to deliver on his promise to create a city in Africa. …One that is run completely on clean energy and has homes for everyone.

How does Elon plan to build the whole city by himself?

The plan is to build a complete city from scratch including homes, businesses and even electricity. The goal is to help alleviate property in Africa. A country where people can spend their whole lives without ever using electricity.

Elon says that he’s working with private investors to fund his new venture and has already made plans for solar energy installations in each home in order to keep costs low for all residents.

However, at present, there are no concrete dates or deadlines given on when construction will begin or Elon’s vision will be completed. Until then, we eagerly await Elon and his team’s next big announcement about how he intends to make dreams reality and alleviate world poverty along the way.

We are entering a new era of urbanization with cities quickly becoming home to more than half of our global population.

In order to accommodate growing populations and changing lifestyles, we must explore fresh concepts in sustainable city planning and design including vertical farming, underground houses and eco-friendly public transportation. That’s why Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed building his own city on land currently owned by the Southern African government. The details are still up in the air… https://complexob7.com/elon-musk-is-building-a20b-city-in-africa/

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Meta'sMetaverseHypeinAfricaMayNotBeartheDesired

By Faustine Ngila

META WANTS TO SPREAD the metaverse hype in 16 African countries, and has announced a series of programs under its global extended reality (XR) fund to grow metaverse talent.

But the challenge is that for many Africans, the concept of the metaverse is still too theoretical with buy-in relying on people seeing how it can enhance their livelihoods or businesses. Coupled with the restrictively high costs of VR headsets, slow internet speeds, and high costs of data on the continent, the metaverse will face a bumpy ride in Africa.

“It’s good for the future but we’re are not there yet, economically we’re struggling. People hardly understand the concept of the metaverse. If you tweet about the metaverse in Africa people get curious but are confused,” founder of Nairobi-based social media analytics startup Brand Moran, Egline Samoei tells Quartz. “Those who understand it don’t know how to merge it with their businesses.”

Meta’s Africa metaverse ambitions

Phil Oduor, policy programs lead for Africa at Meta says that augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are core to continent’s metaverse future and the company will be pumping $50 million into a two-year training program which aims “to support African XR talent who are building innovative solutions that demonstrate the various aspects of the metaverse in Africa.”

The company is partnering with two startups–Nairobi-based BlackRhino VR and Lagos-based Imisi 3D –and hopes they will help it lodge a successful continental drift into the metaverse. The existence of only two players pioneering VR tech in the continent speaks volumes about Africa’s preparedness for an immersive universe where

Gen X and Gen Z are expected to spend up to five hours in the next five years.

What is the point of the metaverse in Africa?

The concept of the metaverse is still new in Africa, and sales of VR headsets, VR glasses, and Google cardboards have been low because many people are yet to understand what living in the metaverse actually means.

Meta has no plans to make its VR devices affordable for Africa and is in fact doing the converse–raising the price by $100. Meta’s Oculus Quest 2, for instance, costs $396 in Nairobi, a price too high for a continent undergoing economic strife. Curiosity notwithstanding, many Africans cannot afford to join the metaverse obsession and Meta’s efforts may not bear the results it is targeting.

Nick Chumba a 20-year-old web designer finds no inspiration in the metaverse. “Why would I need to purchase a VR headset? Why would I buy designer clothes for a digital avatar? Even the idea of selling digital land, what’s the real value?” Chumba says, highlighting the fact that even African techies are not sure how the metaverse will serve them.

Africa’s internet does not support heavy immersive streaming

Immersive experiences with high-definition video applications require internet data speeds of between 80-100 megabits per second while low resolution 360-degree experiences available in most VR head-mounted displays require at least 25 megabits per second. Africa’s average internet speed is 5.74 Mbps, and the cost is highest in the world. A number of countries are testing 5G networks, but 3G and 4G networks are the mainstay in the whole of Africa.

For Savio Wambugu, a United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Uneca) tech consultant who serves in the advisory board of Kenya’s association of countrywide innovation hubs, Africa is the most promising place to implement the metaverse, but there’s a lot of work to be done in improving infrastructure and growing metaverse talent. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ meta-s-metaverse-hype-in-africa-may-not-bearthe-desired-results/ar-AA112PZA

“Big tech companies are setting base in Africa. This has brought a ripple effect on the skillset needed to build, implement, and adapt to the metaverse. The challenge now is the infrastructural internet capability to support all this which should be upgraded,” he tells Quartz.

At the end, many Africans believe, it’s all about the physical life they’re living and not the virtual one. And they already have enough daily challenges to deal with. But Meta remains optimistic that its efforts to grow metaverse skillsets could help it inject an additional $40 billion into Africa’s GDP in the next decade.

Source: https://qz.com/meta-wants-to-bring-themetaverse-to-africans-through-t-1849886796

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