This sanded-down, polished, slippery-slide smoothness isn’t exclusive to Google Earth. Within the Smooth Earth there is the “Smooth City” — a term coined by architect and critic René Boer to describe the sanitized urban condition that is becoming ubiquitous, in different intensities, across the globe. In the Smooth City, “public spaces are well-designed, well-maintained, clean and safe, if you conform to the rules … However, it can also be a highly normative, controlling and arguably oppressive environment, in which gradually all opportunities for productive friction, sudden transitions or subversive transgressions have been eliminated.” Inside the Smooth City, one might find Smooth Citizens, who aspire “to become as smooth and impervious” as their devices, as Nikki Shaner-Bradford has described. We also have “Smooth Food,” textureless and surreal, glistening with slimy and jelly-like surfaces, which journalist Jenny G. Zhang describes as “food without bite to it.” Zhang concludes that our attraction to smooth food is a reaction against our unsmooth era: “Smooth food is for when you want to close your eyes and rest your head, senses off, save for the heightened feeling of running your fingertips over the satiny surface of a plane that never ends; it continues, uninterrupted, in all directions.”