I've looked into this idea more and watched and read some additional content[1] about Neom. I encourage people to please ignore the marketing and read their words, instead. It will become very obvious what kind of a vision Neom's ownership has for us.

> To keep Neom safe, cameras, drones and facial-recognition technology will let Saudi intelligence services track everyone.

> MBS also wants Neom to host innovations like the “Apollo” project with Softbank, which will create “a new way of life from birth to death reaching genetic mutations to increase human strength and IQ.” Softbank declined to comment.

My interpretation is this is a merger of climate change religion as well as transhumanist ideals. The vast, vast majority of the world will never accept something like Neom even if its theoretical implementation is exactly like the actually-created-by-computer-graphics-artists marketing.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-princes-500-billion-desert-dr...