How Will We Travel in Decades to Come?

2010

It may be the year 2010 now, but surely some type of hover vehicle should be invented by Japan or some other technologically advanced place by 2015. If Back to the Future Part II is anything to go by, in the next five years people will be traveling on hoverboards rather than walking or cycling. How hard is it really to create little hover jets that attach underneath a normal skateboard? If NASA can send a space shuttle weighing 1,650,000 pounds into space, surely they can design a board to hold a human weighing 180 pounds a few inches above ground? How much more convenient would traveling on a hoverboard be – they could even have attachments to help disabled people, even attachments for people with young children. If we are lucky this will all come to fruition in the next five years, along with dancing cows and flying pigs.

2050

You know that feeling, standing in a busy city, the streets filled with people, taxis zooming past not noticing you? How nice would it be to stand in a clear tube and simply saying the place you want to go? The tube will instantly suck you in and send you to where you want to go. What would these excellent tubes be called? I think they should be called Super Hyper Suction Tubes. Traveling through these tubes may get boring especially if you have to travel for at least half hour, so why not funk them up with some old school tunes from the year 2010.

2150

How cool would it be to hop into you own personal spacecraft and explore the universe? Who knows, you may bump into and alternate version of you or an entirely new race of aliens. Maybe by the year 2030 there will be a fuel much cheaper and more efficient than petrol and diesel. When spacecrafts are available to everyone a shop needs to open to provide us with custom body kits – how awesome would a Millennium Falcon body kit be? A really great feature to have would be autopilot for parking. Actually, thinking about that a bit more, wouldn’t highly advanced robots exist? A plethora of accessories should be available, such a laser cannons.

2210

Two hundred years into our future and teleporters should be installed into every house or the equivalent of a house (maybe floating UFOs or some other kind of alien-inspired building). You can guarantee when these awesome machines are built there will be a crazy amount of rules, such as: don’t allow insects inside the teleporter. Maybe they can be coded to specific homes so you can use however many you need to get to various places. Think how much easier it will be when you buy a new 100-inch floating ultra-mega-HD screen and all you have to do is walk through a teleporter then boom, you’re in the room you want the screen in.

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