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This is just like Gene Roddenberry's old show Genesis II from 1973. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)

I saw it when I was a kid and I thought it was awesome!




Yep, globe-spanning underground maglev/vactrains, which in the future-history of Genesis II (1973) and Planet Earth (1974) had been built in the late 20th-century and survived world war to be still working over a hundred years later.

The sci-fi of the past was way too optimistic about giant-scale engineering projects at the same time it was blind to advances and trends in communications and computer-mediated collaboration.




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