Prosperity, wider education, the onslaught of international media, instant telecommunications, travel and more leisure time have opened up the eyes and minds of the discerning electorate not only in Singapore and Japan, but all over the world.

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Partnering with an airline gives an online travel agency instant access to a wider audience, which will help it in selling its inventory of hotel stays.

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That will help pry open the last-mile jam, letting future devices provide instant access to the best network and cheaply adapt to new standards that allow signals to carry more data or travel longer distances.

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Stratram would need to overcome a lot of challenges, particularly if squishy humans were among the things being transported into space: the track would need to be around 1, 000 miles long to avoid the kind of instant acceleration that could crush a human, and the train would need a low-pressure vacuum tube to travel through.

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