Hegemony or Survival? Perhaps the question has been already answered. America is doubtless on the decline and while the business and investment community has awoken to this fact, old media is waking up , too.
Parag Khanna writes in next week’s New York Times Magazine:
It is 2016, and the Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Barack [...]
Waving Goodbye to Hegemony 01.25.08
2099: Underwater mag-lev from NYC to London 12.30.07
We often hear about how terrible air travel is as sustainable and economic transportation. Here’s an interesting alternative, whose impossibility is compared to the semi-successful Chunnel.
Also, I love trains.
From Discovery Channel’s Extreme Engineering:
“A magnetically levitated train could theoretically take you from New York to London in 54 minutes. But you’d have to go 5,000 mph [...]
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