I’ve just been reading a post on we make money not art with an interesting comment on the “illusion of progress”. The post quotes architect Usman Haque and points out that the train from Portlaoise (Ireland) to Dublin took 51 minutes with steam engine in 1928, in 2006 it takes 55 minutes. 90 years, 4 minutes late.
Made me think of the 1930’s Zeppelin transatlantic airship. – Germany to Brazil was a 5 day journey. Not really competitive for passenger transport, but with a much smaller carbon footprint maybe this is the future of freight transportation.