It's a planned place, where the people walk or avail themselves of what's styled "public" transportation – by which is actually meant forms of transportation owned and controlled by the government and corporations, such as the bus and trains and – going forward – automated vehicles that you have no control over.

But you'll be so happy when you own nothing!

Your place of residence will be where you reside, but it will not really be your place – in the ownership (and so, control) sense. No apartment or condo can ever be that because it is not a separate piece of property that you – and you alone – legally own and so have control over. You'll be allowed to live there. Just the same as you'll be allowed to use "transportation." And to eat – maybe – depending on your good (or bad) behavior. That latter to be defined by the ones who own everything – including you.

It's not packaged that way, of course. And the packaging is important.

Akio Toyoda – the grandson of the company's founder – describes the Woven City, which is a real place, as "the prototype town of the future." It is interesting that this is assumed, taken as given.  In other words, it is a future predetermined rather than organically arising via voluntary free association.

But predetermined by whom?

Akio does not answer directly. But he does answer: He invites the audience to join in "our quest to imagine and improve how all of us live in the future."