It’s an interesting combination: Simcity and One Laptop Per Child. Consider the future laptop owners usually live in slums. As I already mentioned here, slums are built by their inhabitants and therefore represent the ultimate democratization of design. Potentially, the marriage between Simcity and One Laptop Per Child could lead to an awareness that could ultimately improve the living conditions in slums all over the world. Quite exciting.

Imagine these future extensions: combining demographic and geographic data from Google Earth with algorithms like CityEngine and Complexification (see here and here), you could start to simulate and predict the future growth of your city, and anticipate to it. It would be the end of urban planning.