People have been talking about the ‘global village’ for years. What is less clearly defined, however, is how we are supposed to move around in this village. Or, to put it another way, the same old answers and solutions, which have been around for a century or so, continue to be used to this day: planes – or, if you’re lucky, helicopters – cars, motorbikes and bicycles, although the latter offer only very restricted mobility. These are all concepts and designs with origins from the last century, and this is a fact that can no longer be ignored. And the results of this are traffic, pollution and an economically unviable system. No one is pretending that devising alternative new models and products is easy, but it is equally true to…
