Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbett, at Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Polato from MediaMonarchy.com.

We were devastated by the recent surge of hate crimes.

We've got that story plus hipster holograms funded by the feds.

But first, peach tree corners continues to lead the way in American smart cities from Nextgov, appropriately enough.

In the Atlanta suburbs, Peach Tree Corners is home to more than 40,000 residents.

Its biggest claim to fame is the fact that the city itself founded Curiosity Lab, a huge facility designed to help industry test new technology. The city doesn't charge those companies to use the Curiosity Lab, which includes a mile and a half autonomous vehicle test track. And when it comes time for

smart city tech to leave the lab, it's being deployed out in this city to see how it performs in a

real world environment. This article goes through a lot of those specifics. In September 2020,

new technologies like 5G weren't yet widely available in peach tree corners, but they were still

deploying some impressive experimental programs like driverless buses, AI-controlled traffic

lights, and autonomous personal scooters. One of the biggest projects going on right now, which

may become a model for other cities that want to connect millions of internet of things

and other devices to a

central hub command center is the installation of a communication system that will support true

edge networking. The project in Peachtree Corners is being managed by Assist, A-C-I-I-S-T, an Israeli

company that specializes in edge networking projects for smart cities.

They have lots of smart city projects in the works, with many of them potentially being the

first test beds for nationwide rollouts.

These include several, of course, green initiatives designed to help the environment and to fight

climate change.

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