Tech mogul Elon Musk coined the term Hyperloop back in 2013, when he released his vision for a fifth mode of transport. Since then, engineers across the world, working on the idea, could make the Hyperloop a reality sooner than we may think.

With Hyperloop, vehicles called pods accelerate gradually via electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube. The pod floats along the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag.

Till now, Virgin Hyperloop has successfully tested the technology with human passengers while, in Europe, Hardt Hyperloop is working on the tech and international coalition-building needed to create entire Hyperloop networks.

While such networks have the capacity to transform the future of travel, this video takes the implications further, to explore how they could redefine the economies of entire continents.

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