SHANGHAI — For the second time in my life, I rode Shanghai’s Maglev (magnetic levitation) train to the airport for just seven minutes and 20 seconds. It was such a cool, speedy experience to take the monorail-like train from mid-Shanghai to the Pudong Airport. Riding the train is like taking a step into the future, a place where technology works magically. But at 268 miles per hour, it travels the 18 miles in such a short time that it feels like an island of technology. I had the same impression a year ago, but I rode it again and got another.
Image: A cooling robot at the Shanghai Maglev station. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi
