Bah, forget that, I will just rent a surrogate from the shop in whatever city i decide to visit.
Posted on 08/22/2015 9:30:19 AM PDT by lbryce
This story first appeared in the September issue of Entrepreneur. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. Travel, the world’s third-largest industry, is on track to grow nearly 4 percent annually over the next decade, outpacing global economic growth, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. Increasing demand and new technology are driving promising developments that should make business travel more pleasant, from airplanes with party rooms to suitcases that tell you where they are.
Airports Contractor Skanska USA has identified three key factors driving airport design today: bigger planes, the need for flexible and efficient security screening and the ability to accommodate the increased time passengers spend in terminals (an average of 108 minutes, a figure that has more than doubled in the past decade).
In the terminal, biometrics may replace your driver’s license. Clear, a membership service that captures your fingerprints and iris scans, is providing biometric identity measures at 12 U.S. airports. Plans for the new Terminal 4 slated to open at Singapore Changi Airport in 2017 include biometric scanning.
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Do you hear anyone talking about the "fantastic" future? No, because none of the fantastic future even in the simplest ways came to pass.Besides, in those days we could sit around and fantasize about things we have neither the time nor the sense of freedom to waste on. The future, as it has turned out, is rather banal,insipid and not much different from now. And hanks to certain leaders, who are working very hard to see that there is no future to speak of anyway. The fact i, you can travel in the most modern futuristic style and manner, the bottom line is, we'll have nowhere to go. really.
The fantastic, futuristic future may well include a short, horrible, nuclear war begun by Iran thanks to Obama.
You mean people can still aford vacations under The One?? Well other than the elites, anyway?
Nothing said about how airlines treat passengers like cattle. Technological developments won’t change that. Nothing about how airport screening reduces passengers to compliant sheep.
About the same as it looks like now. Crowded, poorly designed airports, packed airplanes with seats that grow narrower and closer together every year, airlines that charge for everything and anything, surly airline workers, and a better than even chance that they're going to lose your luggage. Oh, and ever higher airline fares.
I’m going to take my Flying Car to the Spaceport and catch the next Shuttle to Elysium.
Couldn’t afford one under W either.
So no more, “Papiere, Bitte.”
It’s going to be “Touch here.” or “Look into this.” Truly the age of privacy and anonymousness is over.
My fear is government will use the data they collect on you to rule you. Has it EVER been any other way?
To someone from the first century AD who didn’t really understand what was happening at these checkpoints it might look like the forehead and back of the hand were being examined.
Just sayin’.
Bah, forget that, I will just rent a surrogate from the shop in whatever city i decide to visit.
[ To someone from the first century AD who didn’t really understand what was happening at these checkpoints it might look like the forehead and back of the hand were being examined.
Just sayin’. ]
That is a beastly speculation....
I’ve thought this since the biometric ID scanners first came out years ago.
That it will be tied to ‘us’ universally (everything about it) in order to prevent terrorism and ‘fraud’ is a fait accompli at this point. It’s just a matter of implementation. No more credit cards to get lost or stolen, no more medicaid/medicare fraud, no more identity theft. That’s how we will be ‘forced’ to accept it. Those who do not will have to live in the stone age at a subsistence level growing and producing everything they need themselves. No medical care w/o it either.
Alas, at some point the focus changed from enabling and empowering people to controlling people. It was at this point that the dreams began to fade. It was at this moment in time that we saw the shift from inventing things to inventing rules.
I agree with your sentiment about banality - these are definitely not inspiring times to be living in. I hope someday our nation breaks out of its funk.
Today? I'm not sure I know anyone who thinks of the future with optimism. I feel that modern governments have burned it down before it got here.
As for the TSA, that is not on the airlines. And yeah, it pretty much sucks for what they accomplish (not much).
I returned to the country nearly 14 years ago, and now I’m working on going galt-growing, making, bartering as much stuff as I can-it is much nicer than being a scanned worker bee in a hivelike city. It is not for everyone, but it works for most of us here...
It’s unlikely you’ll be able to even pay property taxes w/o the ID. How will they ‘know’ it’s you paying them. How will you pay them at all if they eventually go to digital cash?
And forget a drivers license w/o biometric ID of some sort...or car tag.
“The future, as it has turned out, is rather banal,insipid and not much different from now.”
Look at all the “progress” in the last 10 years or so. It takes even longer to wait at airports. People can stream their porn movies or whatever faster. Marriage has been devalued to nothing. Our “leaders” tell us that Christianity is to blame for every evil even as ISIS commits genocide and plans on marching into Europe. People drive slightly more fuel efficient cars on streets and bridges that are falling apart. The only people most politicians represent are the criminal underclass, the ultra-rich and well-connected, and illegal aliens.
And we won’t have to travel to Mexico, as most of it will encompass our SW states.
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