Thomas Fuchs4d ago

Remember the vacuum tube train? The car tunnels? The brain implant chip? The humanoid robots? Making government “efficient”? An AGI based on… tweets (wtf)?

But sure, colonizing Mars is totally real.

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@thomasfuchs I got so excited because I thought you were talking about this vacuum tube train! https://improbable.com/2011/01/06/guardian-column-234/
London to Edinburgh in 5 minutes

The journey between London and Edinburgh would be much quicker had the London and Edinburgh Vacuum Tunnel Company been allowed and able to build a breathtaking new piece of technology, back when la…

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