I'm holding out for teleportation technology capable of beaming me from my couch to a barstool at the pub up the street. Or more importantly from the barstool back to my couch.
I think that's a lot of it. Could we have done this better and greater vision? 100%. But it's hard to imagine a country this big and low density turning out the way a geographically small, high density country does. There's also the decrease in cost of short haul passenger flights over the last decades. Crappy for climate change but sensible enough from a consumer cost and efficiency perspective.
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I'm holding out for teleportation technology capable of beaming me from my couch to a barstool at the pub up the street. Or more importantly from the barstool back to my couch.
I think that's a lot of it. Could we have done this better and greater vision? 100%. But it's hard to imagine a country this big and low density turning out the way a geographically small, high density country does. There's also the decrease in cost of short haul passenger flights over the last decades. Crappy for climate change but sensible enough from a consumer cost and efficiency perspective.