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<http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/cite-unoccupied-future-city/
It’s called CITE — Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation. It’s a $1 billion, 15 square mile model of a city being built by Pegasus Global Holdings, a telecommunications and tech firm, for the sole purpose of experimentation. Pegasus’ managing director Robert Brumley says, “The vision is an environment where new products, services and technologies can be demonstrated and tested without disrupting everyday life.”
CITE will provide an extra step after testing something out in a lab, before introducing it to the public. Driverless cars can experience reactive roads; homes could be designed with robotic features or with the capacity to withstand natural disasters; alternative energy sources can be tested on a large scale.