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:''The question was given to a bunch of engineers: how do we make the journey to Paris better? They came up with a very good solution: spend £6 billion building completely new tracks from London to the coast, knocking 40 minutes off a 3½ hour journey. But it strikes me as an unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter. What you should in fact do is employ all the world’s top male and female supermodels, pay them to walk the length of the train handing out free Château Petrus for the duration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down. | :''The question was given to a bunch of engineers: how do we make the journey to Paris better? They came up with a very good solution: spend £6 billion building completely new tracks from London to the coast, knocking 40 minutes off a 3½ hour journey. But it strikes me as an unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter. What you should in fact do is employ all the world’s top male and female supermodels, pay them to walk the length of the train handing out free Château Petrus for the duration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down. | ||
::: — [[Rory Sutherland]]<ref>Transcript of his brilliant talk [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/308756512?t=1579696800794 here].</ref> | ::: — [[Rory Sutherland]]<ref>Transcript of his brilliant talk [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/308756512?t=1579696800794 here].</ref> | ||
:''“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”'' | |||
::: — Henry Ford | |||
===The problem=== | ===The problem=== | ||