Well, if there was demand for faster cars there would be demand for faster roads. Frankly, if people really had an appetite to live in futuristic cities, they m

Well, if there was demand for faster cars there would be demand for faster roads. Frankly, if people really had an appetite to live in futuristic cities, they might move to newly built cities in Asia/ME, but it's not really happening. The top reason to fly is still "leasure purposes", which hardly sounds urgent and explains why people are happy with direct but slow flights. I actually think people's priorities are different and the futurism of the past did not prove to be a good predictor for the future. A major shift is of course the end of the Cold war, which cooled down innovation in general, but it s still curious why digital tech did so much better.