Talking Headways Podcast: Sidewalk Labs and Toronto’s Waterfront
This week, we're talking to Sidewalk Labs about the Quayside project in Toronto — about innovative ideas and the pushback Google is getting.
By
Jeff Wood
10:25 AM PDT on September 19, 2019
This week, we’re joined by Eric Jaffe, editorial director at Sidewalk Labs. Jaffe chats with us about Sidewalk’s Quayside project on Toronto’s waterfront, about the potential for innovative ideas, about the pushback he and his team have been getting on data management, and about some of the history as well.
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