Hey everyone.
Forgive me for the title, I was not quite sure what to call this idea.
As some of you might know, I am writing a story in a futuristic fifties setting. I have decided that one of the most significant achievements of the future is the invention of an underground transport system, which can send someone from New York to L.A within an hour and a half. To limit this invention slightly, I have decided that making this transport system is relatively expensive.
What I want to ask is how this transport system would change America, especially an America which has culturally stagnated since the 1950s. I imagine the largest cities to become even larger and smaller cities to shrink significantly. The countryside would likely become more lawless and detached from urban America.
Would the borders of the states be redrawn? How many people and what groups would not move to the cities? What else would change?
Forgive me for the title, I was not quite sure what to call this idea.
As some of you might know, I am writing a story in a futuristic fifties setting. I have decided that one of the most significant achievements of the future is the invention of an underground transport system, which can send someone from New York to L.A within an hour and a half. To limit this invention slightly, I have decided that making this transport system is relatively expensive.
What I want to ask is how this transport system would change America, especially an America which has culturally stagnated since the 1950s. I imagine the largest cities to become even larger and smaller cities to shrink significantly. The countryside would likely become more lawless and detached from urban America.
Would the borders of the states be redrawn? How many people and what groups would not move to the cities? What else would change?