When Karl Friedrich Benz -- the father of the automobile -- watched the first of his cars being put together in the late 19th century, he probably could not have begun to envisage the Bugatti Veyron.
Likewise today, many forecasts of the future of travel can be mocked, or at least ignored.
But fictional as they may sound now, here are some predictions that have been made, by tech nerds, fortune-tellers and futurologists, about the future of travel.
We wanted to see just how likely each of them is, and so recruited David Feng, a Beijing-based tech watcher and blogger to offer his predictions on various events unfolding. The percentage marks below are his.
We also spoke to Roger Thomas, an airport and aviation specialist at CAP Strategic Research, to consider and rate the likelihood of these outlandish predictions actually becoming reality.
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