Airplanes are nothing but giant catapults that literally launch people into the air and use computers to find their way down in the right spot, ideally without hitting anything along the way. With hyper space, there will be no more worrying about having to fly in small propeller planes that get you sick. There'll be no more bags of peanuts, safety videos or lost luggage. Airplanes will be laughable. But not nearly as laughable as trains, truly the most primitive of the three major transportation outlets in modern society.
Trains operate on a track which only the train can move on.
Trains are big boxes that transport people from place to place but can't go off a track. My point here is that we all travel every single day, no matter how far and by what means. We rarely think, however, about how we really get there. Until then, we'll just have to amuse ourselves with the primitive forms of transportation we know today. Jason Gewirtz is senior campus editor of the Campus Press.