Nine reasons why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams and not Hyperloops.
I can think of a tenth: high speed rail is a solution in search for a problem, that for any given route, there exists existing tenants, including little woodland creatures, and thus any estimate to cost is going to be multiplied to handle legal issues. Putting your money into any high speed rail tech in the US is paramount to setting it on fire.
I have to grant the broader point, however. There are grander ideas coming into play -- the Tesla electric car and the Google self-driving car being two that come to mind in the transportation field -- but if Steve Jobs was looking for an Apple CEO today instead of the 1980s, he'd ask "Do you want to distribute cat pictures or do you want to change the world?"
I can think of a tenth: high speed rail is a solution in search for a problem, that for any given route, there exists existing tenants, including little woodland creatures, and thus any estimate to cost is going to be multiplied to handle legal issues. Putting your money into any high speed rail tech in the US is paramount to setting it on fire.
I have to grant the broader point, however. There are grander ideas coming into play -- the Tesla electric car and the Google self-driving car being two that come to mind in the transportation field -- but if Steve Jobs was looking for an Apple CEO today instead of the 1980s, he'd ask "Do you want to distribute cat pictures or do you want to change the world?"
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