Stephenson on Musk and the Hyperloop "But he’s implicitly making a more interesting point, which is that two cities such as LA and San Francisco ought to be ca

Stephenson on Musk and the Hyperloop "But he’s implicitly making a more interesting point, which is that two cities such as LA and San Francisco ought to be capable of doing much, much better than that. He’s asking what happened to us as a civilization that we are unwilling to even think about doing something that is quite doable on a technical level but sufficiently different from existing technology as to pose a serious challenge to engineers, regulators, financiers, and insurers. His Hyperloop proposal is almost a kind of performance art, in that sense."