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The Future Came with Slippers
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The Future Came with Slippers

Aug 11, 2026 13 min read

My first trip to China had all the technology I expected. The surprise was how comfortable they had made it. Shanghai had already given me a very different kind of speed: 300 kilometres per hour while floating above the track on magnetic levitation, an experience that still feels unlike almost anything else in the railway world. By the time I was