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CLEAN CHEAP 4HR WORLD TRAVEL SUSTAINABLE FOR ALL BY 2032
And that actually got a patent? L. Neil Smith described the system in an SF novel (The Probability Broach?) back in the '80s, IIRC.
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I see a future where mobility is available to virtually every person on this planet.
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Yeah, but why bother to travel? These days, you go live in a "foreign" country, they've got the same damn shops & fast food restaurants, play the same damn Muzak in stores that sell the same stuff you could buy back home. If you go to a tropical island, they stick you in a box on the 14th floor of a Hilton hotel that's just like every other one in the world, and you share that beach with about 20,000 other tourists...
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Mobility that makes employment possible.
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Who needs to go places to work? A few years ago, I was simultaneously working for clients in Silicon Valley and Europe, without ever leaving home.