Whose Modernity? Which City?

I found this a few days ago. If it is possible to have ETT it would mean being able to go from Montreal to Vancouver in about an hour, from Cairo to Capetown in three, around 2 hours from Beijing to Moscow and less than three from Santiago to Vancouver.

Here is an interesting site concerning ETT technology.

Of course this would have heavy socioeconomic consequences.

The title is a reference to Macintyre, and the reason I make that reference is I believe technology like this will really impact global politics to such an extent that the paradigm shifts resulting from this will cause us to inquire into what type of modernity we have created, where locality will be consumed in an internationalist hegemony and cities become part of one super-city.