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To: AC Flyer who wrote (13365)	1/12/2002 11:10:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Technologies that will be implemented this century (maybe I'll hedge and say in the next 50 years) must already be on the shelf, ready to go. I have nothing against your interesting speculations, but a pragmatic assessment of the possibilities leads to the transportation technologies I have already outlined. < AC, if you think what technologies existed in 1950 and those in common use now, I'm sure you'd see that some of them were not "on the shelf" in 1950. If you look at what was on the shelf in 1900 and what is available now, I think almost nothing would be recognizable. The technology needed for individual, electronically and photonically controlled, superconductor levitated and powered and literally flying in a tube is all available now. It's barely a stretch. There's some capital investment needed, which is just a matter of the economics making sense - traffic delays are $$billions per year. Think of 1900 horse queues and 1950 freeway high speeds - the capital was much more to achieve that. Electronics and stuff are cheap. If liquid CO2 is being produced in bulk, that's a lot of cooling available for superconductors. <free markets provide product solutions that end-users want.< True, but where are public roads a free market? The USA is communist and so is nearly everywhere, though in France there are a few toll roads [which is not a free market]. See what I mean, your new $15bn road for SUVs isn't a free market. It's communism. It's funny how on the political thread, they think that the USA won the cold war against communism. Hahaha!! <The people of Massachusetts and the Federal Government have just spent approximately $15 billion to put an eight lane highway under the city and improve vehicle access to the Boston airport. So that the citizens of eastern Massachusetts can better drive their SUVs from their homes to the airport.> Did the communists put a segway in too, or just a roadway? Or make provision for modern technology such as billing the SUV owners per kilometre for the cost of the road and some profits? Mq PS: It's funny when for years we think something, only to find out we had the wrong idea all that time. [Re prosaic]. I know the feeling well.