my favorite fictional transportation invention was by Jasper Fforde. If you’ve read his Shades of Grey series (it’s the You Can’t See Color series, not the Bad BDSM series, and actually good to read. my favorite books right now) it’s basically a very very fancy conveyor belt that has higher speed lanes (like 50mph lanes) as you get toward the center, and all you do is step on and whoosh off from Reading to Cardiff. Except it’s also made of gel and eats people if they fall asleep on it. Science fiction and stuff.
i like the fiction because it gets our minds churning about “well, how could we do that IRL? is it possible?” about all sorts of things.
my favorite fictional transportation invention was by Jasper Fforde. If you’ve read his Shades of Grey series (it’s the You Can’t See Color series, not the Bad BDSM series, and actually good to read. my favorite books right now) it’s basically a very very fancy conveyor belt that has higher speed lanes (like 50mph lanes) as you get toward the center, and all you do is step on and whoosh off from Reading to Cardiff. Except it’s also made of gel and eats people if they fall asleep on it. Science fiction and stuff.
i like the fiction because it gets our minds churning about “well, how could we do that IRL? is it possible?” about all sorts of things.