We watch Sci-Fi movies with the hope that from which we could have a glance of the future, a future with hover boards, self-driven cars, A.I embedded into anything and everything. We already have primitive versions of these science fiction possessions, but the way we thought the future would be isn’t the way it is, but not for long. 

Elon Musk - a man that some now consider to be the world’s greatest living entrepreneur, CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors. 

At the recent All Things D conference, Elon Musk spoke cryptically about a revolutionary new form of transportation that’s one part Concorde, one part railgun, and one part air hockey table. And, according to Musk, it could forever change the way we think about transportation. 

What is Hyperloop? 

Hyperloop would be a super-fast, super-efficient form of transportation incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors; In other words, a capsule like vehicle riding along a tube at the speed of light, not literally but close. 

It would be capable of whisking passengers from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in less than 30 minutes, which is a distance of 664.5km, now that is god speed. Elon Musk also stated that the Hyperloop would be unscheduled, "weatherproof" and "crashproof" - passengers would get on and off without having to wait for service. 

The startup plans to start construction on a full-scale, passenger-ready Hyperloop in 2016, not more than 400 “team members” working on the project. They aren’t employees, but women and men with regular gigs at places like NASA, Boeing, and SpaceX, who spend their spare time on Hyperloop in exchange for stock options. 

It’s easy to see why they want to get involved: It’s the chance to work on a truly revolutionary form of transportation—even if some remain convinced it’s never going to happen. 

Could this be an upsurge of a new era? 

Elon Musk has already astonished the world with SpaceX and Tesla Motors, proving them wrong by doing the impossible. The South African virtuoso has always spoken of creating new technologies for space travel and exploration, and might have stumbled across a new technology for rapid, high-speed transportation. One such out-of-this-world concept might be the “Xenon Ion Engine” that NASA claims to be building, capable of sending a robot-controlled spacecraft capable of hurtling through deep space at 200,000 miles per hour. According to NASA space officials, the technology has finally caught up to the dream. Currently, the space shuttle concept is only capable of flying 20,000 miles per hour. 

In any case, if Musk truly is right- Imagine if it’s truly possible to construct a Hyperloop? Imagine if Hyperloop some way or another coordinated the Tesla electric car concept, an across the nation system of charging stations, and existing transportation base into something drastically new and distinctive. 

Here's hoping that Elon Musk's Hyperloop can lead the U.S. into a brave new age of transportation that's cheap, fast, weatherproof, crash-proof and always on time. If anyone can do it, it's Elon Musk. 

By Zeeshan Akram Jabeer