Arts & Manners: The Coming Megaburp

Recently I have been gazing into the future via press conferences, magazines, and newspapers. Allow me to share my cullings with you.

According to the Washington Post, an astrophysicist named Stephen Rosen has written a book—Future Facts: A Forecast of the World as We Will Know It before the End of the Century—in which he projects such inventions as a “tubecraft,” an airless underground tunnel that could carry passengers at speeds up to 14,000 miles per hour, making the trip from New York to Los Angeles in 21 minutes. Streamlined subway cars would be propelled by pollution-free magnetic waves. Projected cost: $90 billion. Projected fare: fifty dollars.

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Recently I have been gazing into the future via press conferences, magazines, and newspapers. Allow me to share my cullings with you.

According to the Washington Post, an astrophysicist named Stephen Rosen has written a book—Future Facts: A Forecast of the World as We Will Know It before the End of the Century—in which he projects such inventions as a “tubecraft,” an airless underground tunnel that could carry passengers at speeds up to 14,000 miles per hour, making the trip from New York to Los Angeles in 21 minutes. Streamlined subway cars would be propelled by pollution-free magnetic waves. Projected cost: $90 billion. Projected fare: fifty dollars.