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What good is hyperloop for cross-city travel? People in 1915 were I am sure imagining a future of personal flying machines which they were confident would be i
by eterm 11y ago
What good is hyperloop for cross-city travel?
People in 1915 were I am sure imagining a future of personal flying machines which they were confident would be in operation by 2015.
Here we are, still cramming into the same tubes that people were travelling in (albeit probably less crammed) over 150 years ago.
- oxalo 11y agoReminded me of a Peter Thiel quote reference in [0]: 'We wanted flying cars and instead we got 140 characters.' Flying cars were a means to an end; we got a similar end, we just found a different means. [0]: https://medium.com/@timrpeterson/140-characters-is-as-good-as-flying-cars-and-maybe-better-b14dcc7782c4 https://medium.com/@timrpeterson/140-characters-is-as-good-a...