I’ve seen messages whip around an old-school newsroom before by evacuated tube (very steampunk), but I never imagined it as a form of transport:

Evacuated Tube Transport is an airless, frictionless, maglev-like form of transportation which is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or airplanes. Six-person capsules travel in the tubes and can reach a maximum speed of 6,500 km/h, and provide 50 times more transportation per kwh.

That’s New York to Los Angeles in just 45 minutes! Imagine a future where you could wake up in Vancouver for a breakfast in Los Angeles, a lunch in New York, and a dinner in Paris. Theoretically, you could be back home in time for last call without any jet lag. Of course, the video also posits that an ETT could get you to Beijing from New York in just two hours, but I imagine the Atlantic Ocean would have something to say about that. Still, paging John Galt…

TAKE ANOTHER BREAK