I have written previously about how to avoid government surveillance – easy if the public own the streets. Many gated communities have private roads, and government cannot add cameras there.
I also came up with the concept of the Black Box Building – a large building with no tracking inside, guaranteed. A safe place to conduct business or affairs with zero proof you did.
It has crossed my mind that there is no theoretical limit to how big those could be. If you can have a surveillance-free gated community, why not a city? If you can have a super-private building, why not a massive shopping centre?
Private property has massive advantages. Private property can be big.
A music festival can have 100,000 patrons, and no government surveillance. Or a sports stadium. Or a jumbo jet. Or the office building of a major corporation. Imagine merging them all into a massive, private space?
The world already has some vertical cities which combine residences, shopping, entertainment and offices. And even a train station. What if such a place was purpose-built with privacy in mind?
