Elon Musks TED Talk: Shaping the Future with 3D Tunnels and Hyperloop

Response to TED TALK about “The Future we’re building- and boring” by Elon Musk Institutional Affiliation 23rd March 2021 Response to TED TALK about “The Future we’re building- and boring” by Elon Musk Introduction The diverse technology of Elon Musk continues to restructure, revitalize and redefine industries such as transportation and energy that will have substantial impact to the world. The inspiration towards a beautiful future drives Elon to provide sustainable solutions to humankind through future innovations like 3D tunnel network, hyperloop, autonomy system of driving and solar glass roofs. These improvements in technology have considerable impact to the world and the question whether they should be a priority to the humanity right now. 3D tunnel network is the future technology for solving congestion in highways. Traffic as a major issue is affecting people everywhere in the world and no sustainable solutions has been found yet. Elon is trying to avoid the traffic above the ground by speeding ahead below the ground. The concept of 3D tunnel network comes with no speed limit since the design is expected to function at 200 kilometers an hour (Pangambam, 2018). In the future, the tunnels will benefit the world through weatherproof operations since rain, surface temperatures and wind will not interfere with the system operations (TBC, 2021). Also, the surface construction has always been noisy with a lot of vibration; however, tunnel constructions in the future will reduce surface impact and noise pollution as it will be invisible, hidden with no noise (TBC, 2021). The world needs an alternative with unlimited capacity just like tunnel construction since it has no practical limit to the number of layers for constructing tunnels (TBC, 2021). This means any current and future capacity is attainable unlike surface system