This $130 Million Hyperloop Hotel lets you take your hotel room with you
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As transport becomes autonomous, and vehicles become pods, it opens the door to new form factors and ways of travelling. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Part aircraft part train this electric Hyperloop could travel at over Mach 1
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New forms of transport are emerging all the time, and many have bold claims, so we’ll see how this one plays out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Futurist Virtual Fireside Chat: The Future of Transportation, P3
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Digital and exponential technologies are transforming every sector, decentralising services, and are having a major impact on the future of infrastructure planning and investment. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Firstly, thank...
This is what travelling in a Mach 1 Hyperloop might look like
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most trains and transport systems are stuck in the 1800’s and 1900’s still, Hyperloop is a transportation system built for the demands of the 21st Century. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Saudi Arabia reveal plans for a 100 mile long car free city called “The Line”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Line is a revolution in city building, designed from a blank slate with the future in mind it does away with alot of the problems that beset modern cities. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
First test passengers push Virgin Hyperloop’s 750mph train closer to reality
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New technologies and innovations follow a common pattern, first they’re built, then they’re tested, then they’re regulated and commercialised. This new test moves hyperloops closer to becoming a commercial reality. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
SpaceX to build floating spaceports for rockets to the Moon and Mars, and hypersonic Earth travel
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Elon Musk is inventing numerous industries and has ambitions to create the first human colony on Mars, and he’s getting closer to realising his goals. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
HyperPower unveil their new high density electric motor to accelerate the Hyperloop
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Futuristic transport like the Hyperloop, a Mach 1 train in a tube, need a futuristic power source. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The Hyperloop is a futuristic train in a vacuum tube that will one day be...
Elon Musk unveils the future of urban transport, and living on Mars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Urban transportation is often a nightmare of clogged and congested roads, Musk believes he has a solution, and it’s going underground. Elon Musk unveiled his vision for the Boring Company last night with the unveiling of the company’s first 12 ft wide test tunnel...
Elon Musk gets ready to unveil the future of urban transportation
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tunnelling is often a complex and expensive process but musk has sped up the process by making the tunnels smaller, and now he wants to revolutionise urban transportation. After months of wondering what was going on beneath their feet outsiders are about to get a...
Futurist Keynote, London: The Future of Disruption, Go Ahead Group
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Billion Journey Project shows how today just one idea can transform over a billion journeys a year, and clearly demonstrates the power of ecosystems and open thinking. Firstly, a big thanks to Theo and David for inviting me to be this years keynote...
Ground transport at 760mph, HTT unveil their hyperloop passenger capsule
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Countries around the world reinventing mobility and transportation, and the Hyperloop is a crucial part of many countries future vision. Elon Musk’s dream of travelling by hyperloop, essentially a Mach 1 train in a vacuum tube, is getting closer to reality as the UAE...
DP World and Virgin unveil Cargospeed Hyperloop
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way we transport goods around the planet will change more in the next thirty years than it has in the last two hundred, and this is simply the latest announcement in a long line of transportation modernisation initiatives. DP World has launched Cargospeed,...
Denvers new “Hyperloop for roads” will transport cars at 200mph around the city
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One good idea leads to another, so they say, and now Denver thinks it can use an adaptation of the Hyperloop to reduce urban commute times. Start-up co-founder Brogan BamBrogan has an unusual stance when it comes to the futuristic technology he’s building, which...
Futurist in the press: Exclusive interview with Richard Branson, Metro newspaper
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Richard Branson is one of the most iconic entrepreneurs of all time but sometimes you’ve got to give the critics fuel in order to create the future. I have to admit I do sometimes have to sit back and pinch myself, after all, it...
RB Systems unveil their awesome Hyperloop Terminal concept
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New ideas and concepts, such as the Hyperloop, are sometimes hard to grasp, so being able to visualise them, and how they would work in society is often crucial to their final success. Late last year, Hyperloop One who recently ran their prototype Hyperloop at...
China announces plans to build a 2,500mph train to rival the Hyperloop
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When people looked into the future they saw faster more efficient planes that made trains obsolete, but the tables look like they’re starting to turn. As the race to be the first company to build the world’s first commercial Hyperloop network, a network of...
Tesla enters the Hyperloop race, instantly breaks speed record
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The race to dominate the future of high speed travel is on, and Elon Musk just showed his hand In 2013 billionaire polymath Elon Musk “gave” the world his Hyperloop idea, a concept of a train in a vacuum tube that could travel at...
Hyperloop One’s pod hits 192mph in first real world test
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In 2013 the Hyperloop was just a concept, and now it’s being tested in Nevada, and it won’t be long before we can travel in one. The Hyperloop, a futuristic Mach 1.0 “train in a tube” concept, that was first touted by Elon Musk...
Hyperloop One completes the first successful test of its Hyperloop system
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In 2013 the Hyperloop, a Mach 1.0 train in a tube, was nothing more than a drawing on a napkin, now Hyperloop One have completed the first full system test of one While you might never have naturally thought as a child that one...
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