The “need for speed” is part of the human drive to go as fast as we can, as far as we can. Always pushing the boundary, always moving forward to greater horizons and opportunities.
The ability to travel faster, from camels and horses, to steamships and steam rail, to cars and planes has a tremendously positive impact on the world. In each advance, the technology developed and the value created helps everyone along the way.
These advances in speed have coincided in the hockey stick improvement of the standard of living around the globe which started about 250 years ago with the advent of the steamship and railroad. Someday supersonic, hypersonic (and warp) will connect the world even better and bring further improvements. The nay-sayers of yesterday nixed railroads, cars and planes. But the value of those modes of transportation is clear.
Speed in the form of transportation that is reliable, safe and sustainable, gets goods and services to people. It brings people to where the opportunities are. It leads to improvement in communications, tolerance, understanding and the opportunity to experience the world.
Check out the cool video below from Red Side’s YouTube channel (originally posted on LinkedIn by Hermeus).
Max Kachoria
