THE FUTURE IS FASTER THAN YOU THINK(CHAPTER ONE)

 CHAPTER ONE

Convergence

Flying Cars

The Skirball Cultural Center sits simply off the 405 thruway, on the

northern fringe of l. a. . engineered atop the skinny spine of the Santa

Monica Mountains, the middle offers spectacular views in nearly each

direction, aside from the thruway below—which is slow

for miles on finish.

Of course it's.

In 2018, for the sixth straight year, l. a. earned the dubious

honor of being the foremost gridlocked metropolis within the world, where the

average driver spends two-and-a-half operating weeks a year unfree in

traffic. nevertheless facilitate is also on its means. In could 2018, the Skirball Center

was ground zero for Uber Elevate, the ridesharing company's radical

plan for finding this traffic: their second annual flying automotive conference.

Inside the Skirball, large screens displayed an evening sky dotted with

stars that slowly pale into a blue dotted with clouds. at a lower place the

clouds, it had been room solely. The event had attracted a motley

crew of the facility elite: CEOs, entrepreneurs, architects, designers,

technologists, venture capitalists, brass, and land

magnates. Nearly thousand in total, wearing everything from Wall

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