The transport Tycoon player in me is grinning at the thought of a rail rush and covering north America with rail lines, but your right it probably won't happen. Maybe if society crashes back to the 1920s, but trucks would still be indispensable for for the last leg to retail.

These last 8 years have really brought into sharp relief how much delusionaly optimistic fantasy I was sold about technology in the early 2010s. If they weren't predicting the end of the world due to population growth or global warming/climate change, they were predicting technological marvels like instant housing, infinite clean energy and the achievement of global harmony and equality.

I guess it's a sort of carrot and stick approach. Do what we want and you get all this neat stuff, continue on the current path and suffer. Like a religion. Hmm.

I suppose in some respects its encouraging that they seem to have lost their carrot and are now the utopian future includes eating bugs, living in pods within dystopian hive cities and driving vehicles that are unable to transport you to the next hive over.

These days whenever I hear that all vehicles will be electric in the future, I assume that the person speaking is an ignorant city dweller who has never had to leave it for any of their needs.

Why don't you ignorant fucks start with some trolley buses or something. At least those are cool. economically viable. and would rejuvenate our rotting public transit systems.