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Dream of 15 min. towns. Can we make everything in 15 minutes?



Everybody knows the dream of 15 min. towns. In those towns, every service is 15 minutes trip away from home. But can we escalate that dream? Could 15 minutes city or 15 minutes urban area involve the idea that every service will happen in 15 minutes?

How realistic this model that everything happens in 15 minutes is? And could the most modern technology turn the global environment into 15 minutes entirety, where people can reach everything on Earth in 15 minutes? 

That means we would go to the doctor in 15 minutes. We are waiting for the doctor for 15 minutes. And then we spent 15 minutes in the examination room. After the doctor, we go to the drugstore in 15 minutes and after 15 minutes. We have medicines in our hands. Could that thing be possible someday? We can call that vision the 15 minutes society. Everything happens in 15 minutes. 

When we are building taller buildings. The reason for that is that price of land is high in urban areas. And we can make hybrid solutions for an environment where people are living in smaller areas. And shopping centers are connected to houses where people are living. That makes the use of time more effective. 

And when those complexes are ready that solution decreases emissions. But the problem is that people might not ever go outside. And in the most extreme dystopic visions, those shopping-center-home hydrides are turning to independent states. 

Maybe shopping centers are the service centers of tomorrow. And if the robots are making physical products people can work in the same building where they live and go shopping. There could also be things like public services like doctors. But of course, this kind of advancement means that people have fewer contacts with the outside world than ever before. 

If we have the internet. We can click ourselves to another side of the Earth. Of course, we are not physically in there. But we can use VR screens that are giving us a real-looking vision of the environment. But the problem is that we are selecting information. We must not read things that do not please us. And that means we are missing the information that can be vital.


But can we travel physically around the world in 15 minutes? Or travel to any place on Earth in less than an hour? 


When we think about things like hypersonic aircraft and hyperloop trains those things might transport us to any point on the Earth by using hypersonic transportation. New hypersonic systems use hydrogen fuel so they are not causing emissions. And the hypersonic VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft can take people to any location on the Earth in less than an hour. 

But the "magnet loop" train could be a more powerful and faster transportation system than any other transporter invented before. The magnet loop is a particle accelerator that transports the train inside the vacuum tube. 

The system uses magnetic levitation. And also magnets are pulling the train in that tube. Because there is a vacuum in the tube there is no friction. And that allows rising the speed of that system to be highly hypersonic. That kind of system can make it possible to make a new type of transportation that is faster than any atmospheric system before it. 


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