"For decades, technology companies have been arriving in cities and communities with grand promises of jobs, efficiency, and automated utopias, but ultimately extracting far more than they delivered: land, water, public subsidies, data, democratic control over local decisions. The tools and the scale have changed; the pattern hasn’t." https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/cities-in-the-shadow-of-the-server-a-reading-list-for-urbanists