Fresh details have emerged about Saudi Arabia's wildly ambitious plan to build a $500 billion mega-city in the middle of the desert, officially known as the Neom project.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Thursday , plans have been drawn up to furnish the city, which Saudi Arabia wants to be the size of Massachusetts, with a variety of futuristic, and in some cases, downright weird sounding, technologies.

The Journal cites reports created by three of the world's biggest consultancy firms - McKinsey & Co, Boston Consulting, and Oliver Wyman - all of whom have been employed to help plan the creation of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's vision for the city.

The city will be known as Neom, a portmanteau of the Greek word neos, meaning "new," and mustaqbal, the Arabic word for "future."
Among the ideas presented in the consultants' reports, the Journal says, are artificial clouds to create rain in the desert, robotic maids to do housework, and a beach featuring glow-in-the-dark sand.

Proposed features mentioned in the consultancy reports are said to include:

Flying taxis. In the future, one report says, according to the Journal: Driving is just for fun, no longer for transportation (e.g. driving Ferrari next to the coast with a nice view)."
A giant artificial moon that will be illuminated every evening.

A state-of-the-art security and surveillance system, which will use drones, security cameras, and facial recognition technology to track every citizen constantly.
"Cloud seeding" technology to make artificial clouds and produce higher rainfall that naturally possible in the Saudi desert.

School classes taught by holographic teachers. Neom will have the "leading education system on the planet," the consultants' reports say.
A Jurassic Park-like island filled with robotic dinosaurs to entertain residents and visitors.
A dining scene including the "highest rate of Michelin-starred restaurants per inhabitant" of any city in the world.

Neom is the centerpiece in bin Salman's Vision 2030 plan to modernize and diversify the Saudi economy, lessening the kingdom's reliance on fossil fuels.
Saudi Arabia is the world's second biggest producer of oil, narrowly behind the US in terms of production capacity.
As a result, its economic prosperity is linked closely with global oil prices, which are volatile.

Chai!!!

That is the GDP of entire Nigeria.

Waiting for the vanity gang

These were Gaddafi's idea.

We are counting on our amiable president mama mmadu bụ garrị to do it for us!

That is what Atiku plans to do with Nigeria too but APC won't allow him

I weep for saudi arabia.There are a myriad of ways of developing without investing in sin.

The same oilooo.

Such innovation.. Na RUGA we know..

That's a place I will love to own a house. Hurry up boys, 2030 is too far

excellent concept

tartar9:
I weep for saudi arabia.There are a myriad of ways of developing without investing in sin.

I think you have a point.

Hmm,,, God abeg waya me lots and lots money too ooo

tartar9:
I weep for saudi arabia.There are a myriad of ways of developing without investing in sin.

indeed, they can invest in cattle colony.

What can one say about nigeria oil wealth, im sure our leaders would be buying houses there if our oil has not dried up.

More fantasy than reality.Artificial rain my foot.

hisexcellency34:
That is what Atiku plans to do with Nigeria too but APC won't allow him

planning to do for IPOB point of correction.

This project won't fly

It would be the west and china that would build the city for them. There own is to go to a robotic mosque to pray.

Babalegba:
More fantasy than reality.Artificial rain my foot.

Probably 50 years plan,just like Dubai it’s about 29years old still not yet 10% of where they want it to be .I don’t really think the plan can work in country where there are hardliners like Saudi Arabia,it can only work in Qatar and UAE
They are going to reject it

he forgot one thing; cattle colony

Oil money to be well spent

these are countries where things work.

tartar9:
I weep for saudi arabia.There are a myriad of ways of developing without investing in sin.

elaborate
Where is sin here?