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The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive
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The thing is we are undergoing one of the most exponential acceleration of technology and society that we have ever experienced as a species by many metrics (even tho many will say we are living in the worst time ever, by other metrics). The last decade corporations threw a shitton of money at seemingly impractical and impossible ideas. Convince strangers to get in other strangers cars to replace taxis and limos? No problem you’ve just created a whole new “profitable” sector that redefined society all over the world. Create 10 separate Netflix’s spending billions of dollars you shouldn’t have, ruining your best IP thru oversaturation , and it failed? Everyone should have known this hurr durr. As dumb as the Hyperloop always has been and still is, I do get why so much money and hype went into it during a decade where the impossible and impractical routinely became commonplace
I mean, it an impossible and impractical project from its inception. Everyone should have known this, but Elon Musk iron man hurr durr.
The thing is we are undergoing one of the most exponential acceleration of technology and society that we have ever experienced as a species by many metrics (even tho many will say we are living in the worst time ever, by other metrics). The last decade corporations threw a shitton of money at seemingly impractical and impossible ideas. Convince strangers to get in other strangers cars to replace taxis and limos? No problem you’ve just created a whole new “profitable” sector that redefined society all over the world. Create 10 separate Netflix’s spending billions of dollars you shouldn’t have, ruining your best IP thru oversaturation , and it failed? Everyone should have known this hurr durr. As dumb as the Hyperloop always has been and still is, I do get why so much money and hype went into it during a decade where the impossible and impractical routinely became commonplace