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of electric bullet train travel with the trip visualizer provided on the California High Speed Rail Association website, which comes laced with sexy CG animations of what the golden state will look like twenty years from now, as well as time, distance, and cost calculations.

Having just returned home yesterday from a weekend in Los Angeles, color me particularly jealous of the future-me. He will be able to visit friends and countrymen for a downright pedestrian fifty-five stones, in exchange for an additional ninety-eight minutes of his future-life over my wasteful jet flight. When I think about the cellular data rates future-me will be utilizing on this Elysian journey across Cali, let’s just say I would like to start putting money aside for the purchase of suspended-animation services once Obama’s second term comes to a close. (via Engadget)