Re:AI Startups in Montreal
by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:03AM
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> a slew of other tech startups. The same thing happens in every city: the artists and the small community shops are being forced out to make space for poke bowl restaurants and tiki bars when the spaceship lands.
You could say exactly the same about the Old Street / Shoreditch area of London UK in the last 20 years. Hardly changing a word, except for "poke bowl" and "tiki bar" - that's just annual fashion.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1130346/305-bellechasse...
What used to be the "creative bohemian area" of the city has been heavily invested in by Ubisoft (first), and then by a slew of other tech startups. The same thing happens in every city: the artists and the small community shops are being forced out to make space for poke bowl restaurants and tiki bars when the spaceship lands.
As a result, the local framing has become "artists vs AI". Grassroot action will paint this influx as a bad thing. To be fair, this whole situation has been mismanaged for decades. By private stakeholders, by the borough's mayors. Montreal as a whole has been historically bad at using alternative scenes to rehabilitate part of itself, then undercutting support to these alternatives scenes & smaller communities... See Griffintown, St-Laurent/Mile-End, St-Henri