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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm sooooo totally there.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm sooooo totally there.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Amazing how they can build an entire city for $25 Billion, but we can't even get out of Iraq for less than $1 Trillion.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Auri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[So what you are saying is I... er... somebody could grab one of these "non-identity linked smartcards", go buy everything I want, use it to fill up on gas if i please, and then go back to the card owner's home to cook dinner with all the groceries i just bought?<br><br>Putting a little too much faith in our species if you ask me. There better be some sort of back up security for those things. Retina scan or whatever, but yeah.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Stone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Too bad they already basically have this in Japan... NTT DoCoMo's "osaifu keitai" has an IC card in it that you can use to purchase things, unlock your electronic door locks, ride the train, etc., not to mention videoconferencing on everyone's cell phone.  Sounds like a big waste of money if you ask me.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Killian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[65000 residents?<br>So, 16-bit addresses will do.<br>How much of a premium for the oh-so exclusive "0000000000000001 New Songo" then?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[#4, it sounds like you're not the right sort of candidate to live in the city anyways. don't project your own faults onto other people. why assume that other people, especially people not in a western culture, would take advantage of the city? i doubt just anyone will be allowed to move in anyways.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hmm, let's see, this future city features a two-way video screen you can't shut off, universal employment, electronic payments so all your purchases will be recorded by agents from the 'ministry of truth,' perpetual war with the enemy to the north, and every aspect of your social life controlled by the government. It's utopia, I tellya.  <br><br>I run screaming from it, thank you very much.<br><br>"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."<br>-George Orwell]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rusty Shackleford]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA["Amazing how they can build an entire city for $25 Billion, but we can't even get out of Iraq for less than $1 Trillion."<br><br>That's because in Iraq we are rebuilding an entire nation/region/culture that has been devastated by the backward teachings of militant Islam and murdurous regimes. We're not simply there to "build an entire city"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jedda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[65000? That number is too good to be a coincidence. My guess is that the city is supposed to hold exactly 65536 (hmm.. or 65535 to keep from overflowing) residents. Just for techno-geek chiq value.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[daivd]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Get Wesley Snipes in that town and we'll need the Demolition man to take care of it all.  Hollywood made New Songo several years ago.  Old news.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chapu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[songo is the Cuban rhythm with modern electronic instrument accompaniment.  Comparing building a CITY in a 1st world country and occupying a third  world COUNTRY with many cites is obviously not the same.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kang]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ever get the feeling the US is getting left behind and becoming technologically irrelevant?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mystic Alpaca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Careful with the topic now, don't make us shut comments!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Block]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well by the time they implement all this stuff it will be older technology. I dont it will work if they even go through. Its bound to be plagued with problems and stuff like this never works. Whenever you do massive technology pushit always has problems. Society accepts technology gradually and we need to be sppon fed. The Market will implement it when it need to]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Quicksilver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[by 2014, imagine how much of this technology will be obsolete. they will have to adapt building methods as they go.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer Akers]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[wow 25B for the city of the future or 200B for the big easy...<br><br>decisions decisions<br><br>(not meaning to be political or get anything shut down)<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA["Get Wesley Snipes in that town and we'll need the Demolition man to take care of it all."<br><br>What seems to be your boggle?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[#3 I was thinking almost EXACTLY the same thing. How come we don't have enough money to go building super hi-tech cities? Oh yeah, because we're wasting it all on an unecessary war.<br><br>#11 lol.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[enzo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Now all we need is all that technology and all those great ideas... but available in America.<br><br>:(]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[I want to live there.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Nicolas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[#9<br>"That's because in Iraq we are rebuilding an entire nation/region/culture that has been devastated by the backward teachings of militant Islam and murdurous regimes. We're not simply there to "build an entire city"<br><br>or<br><br>Due to the West supporting the "backward teachings of militant Islam and murderous regimes". Therefore enabling us to go back later and use that $1 trillion of tax payer money to support our false economy.<br><br>Imagine if we spent $1 trillion on new schools, infrastructure, new technology cities like the one mentioned here, but no we have to do things covertly and trick the apathetic sheep that we call the American public. <br><br>I wish we could build something like this in the US. Why do the Asian countries always have to beat us?<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lightleaf]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's actually Songdo, not Songo.  You can check out the developer's website at www.newsongdocity.com  Be sure to hit the "Movie" link on the home page for some real Utopian bliss.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[KC]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yea just imagine what a natural disaster, like an earthquake perhaps, would do to a beautiful, picture perfect city like this.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[alaiN- its french]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA["That's because in Iraq we are rebuilding an entire nation/region/culture that has been devastated by the backward teachings of militant Islam and murdurous regimes. We're not simply there to "build an entire city""<br><br>I thought we were there to find those darn WMDs...  Oh how quickly we forget.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Iago]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[so let me get this straight..<br><br>they're building a new city<br>it's going to be high tech<br>it's going to populated by korean girls <br><br>man, a geek's wet dream <br><br>*thumbs down]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[The city is called Songdo, not Songo.<br><br>See http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1192 for more info]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's Songdo, not Songo]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yes, It's Song-Do ('Song' means pinetree not a song, 'Do' means an island ).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[duke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's the type of city that Dean Kamen envisioned when he created the Segway.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Galley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sounds like it's going to be in Incheon close to the Airport.  They've been reclaiming land from the sea in that area for years.  That's where the new Internation Airport is located (I had the pleasure of being on a flight there a month after it opened.)<br><br>The road inland goes by a lot of landfill area projects where they're reclaiming the land from the sea.<br><br>All I got to say is I hope it doesn't sink.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TAZ427]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wanted to make a note here on the name of the city. It has been mis-spelt. The South Korean ubiquitous city is New Songdo, not New Songo. You can check out http://www.new-songdocity.co.kr/ for the horse's mouth!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Manish Jani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[Will they build that city on rock and roll?<br><br>Someone had to say it. Or just me. I've got Starship blasting out of my iTunes right now. Sorry.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Anderson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Songdo, the South Korean "ubiquitous city" of the future]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/05/new-songdo-the-south-korean-ubiquitous-city-of-the-future/</guid><description><![CDATA[uh work has already started on the New Songdo City by the way... all the land has be reclaimed awhile ago<br><br>Currently, they started building the Trade Center building and the Convention Center, both of these structures look amazing.. They are also developing  residental areas now.. its going to be one hell of a city.. the international school in New Songdo will be established by HARVARD UNIVERSITY..!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[KAMA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>