But cities across Canada will certainly not become utopia in five years, according to Robert Wright, a professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, who specializes in urban design and planning.
"We have much more technology now and we don't apply a lot of that technology to start with because we don't have the resources or we don't have the expertise to apply all this technology. It's very expensive and it's constantly changing," he said.
Canadian culture is another obstacle to this utopian vision, according to Wright.
"We create a lot of really interesting technology, but we are not necessarily early adopters on that technology ... Canadians are not risk-takers. We like to see technologies really well-established before committing ourselves to them. We are just very conservative that way," he said.
Other countries may also have greater incentives to invest these technologies, according to Wright, because many of the technologies are so new that they "almost assume" to work inside of a new system.
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