With the strong winds, celebrity big brother fiasco and BBC move hitting the news it was surprising to find out on the news that the average houshold spends 62 pounds on travel (followed by 58 on leisure). There is a huge opportunity in saving time and money if everyone could reduce their travel by just 10% (not to mention the environmental improvement).
Things that could be done include:
(1) Increase in telecommuting and home working including the use of video conferencing and selective computer networks that link some home computers to the business network.
(2) Virtual reality technology to the point where reality and fantasy merge but where the user has control of his or her surroundings (instead of a matrix scenario). This may reduce the demand on flights as well as trains and car use for leisure purposes.
(3) Vehicle pooling and bussing to the extent that people are picked up and driven in groups by area to area thus reducing traffic and road time picking up.
(4) Active promotion of cycling and walking for shorter distances (increases fitness and reduces stress).
(5) Teleportation of body or/and mind via the process of scan/download/transfer/upload in a process analogous to direct writing but where we can download human consciousness and upload at the other end (possibly to a cloned body).
Anyway 3 of these ideas could be used here and now without affecting working efficiency. What happened to the paperless office now that we could benefit from car-less roads?
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