The country has ambitions for 310 mph bullet trains by 2025.
The trains planned for 2025 will reduce the travel time between Tokyo and Nagoya to 40 minutes from about 90 minutes. At that speed, commuters could go from L.A. to the Bay Area in just over an hour.
But can low-income Japanese afford to travel this way? Can the middle-class?
Martin Belam compares the present with Kubrick’s vision of it. While Kubrick got plenty right, he failed to predict that meetings of the future might become less humane.
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Part of the reason that Dr Floyd has been sent to Clavius Base is to deliver a morale-boosting speech to a crew bemused by what they have unearthed on the moon.
Frankly, there is no way that this would have been done in the real 2001 without the judicious use of PowerPoint featuring Excel charts and inspiring pictures of puppies, and probably some free branded goodies to take away and cheer everybody up.
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