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“One day soon drones
and robots will deliver
our meals,” Gecchelin
says. But further into
the future, helicopter-
size drones could also
deliver people. Some
experts even think that
cargo drones will be able
to lift small houses from
a city and carry them to
scenic vacation spots.POWER PLANE
Passenger planes will
still be around in the
future—they’ll just
travel much faster.
Today flying 6,850
miles from New York
City to Beijing, China,
takes about 14 hours.
But thanks to future
technological advance-
ments such as sleeker,
more lightweight air-
crafts, a passenger
plane could make the
same trip in just under
two hours.TOTALLY TUBULAR
Your friend invites you
to her birthday party. It’s
today—and across the country. No prob. You can tube it from the West Coast to the East Coast in just two hours. You sit in a capsule
that looks like a train without rails. Whoosh! The capsule’s sucked into a vacuum tube. Like a bullet train, the capsule uses magnets to
fly forward in the tube without friction, or resistance. The result: a smooth, fast ride that never slows down from 750 miles an hour.TTTNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS 21