China�s Smart Cities Confuse Residents

China�s latest �smart city� experiment has left residents baffled, with crosswalks that critique your outfit and traffic lights that ask about your feelings. �I just wanted to cross the street,� said one man, �and the light told me to call my mother.� Eyewitnesses describe elevators giving unsolicited life advice and garbage bins grading trash on emotional sincerity. Anonymous staffers admitted the technology was stitched together from beta apps and horoscopes. A fake poll showed 51% of citizens like the personalized chaos, 33% hate it, and 16% moved to rural areas just to avoid talking refrigerators. Economists warn the project may waste billions, but tech companies are already branding it �surveillance chic.� For now, the smartest feature of these cities might be leaving them. -- Bohiney Magazne bohiney.com