The future of transportation | Ryan Janzen | TEDxToronto

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Ryan Janzen is a scientist, engineering researcher, and artist. His work, featured on the Discovery Channel, the World Expo in Shanghai and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, embodies a fusion between science, technology and art, and has led to advances in acoustics, optics, aerospace electronics, mathematics, and vehicle propulsion.

Janzen is co-founder and CTO of TransPod, working to design ultra-high-speed aerospace vehicles, moving passengers and cargo between cities faster, with reduced dependency on fossil fuels – creating the future of transportation.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx