Curbed’s Alissa Walker has a great interview with Globe and Mail reporter Josh O’Kane, who’s new book Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy is the definitive account of the failed effort by Sidewalk Labs to build “a city from the internet up.” It’s also an interesting look into the rise and fall of the smart city movement in the 2010s, which presumed that residents would willingly share their own personal data in exchange for city services.