When the American Computer Science Association chose Justin Sutton and the Interstate Traveler Company as the first recipient of the coveted NEWTY award for the new millennium, it established for the whole world that the Hydrogen Superhighway will have a greater positive impact on humanity than the good works and achievements of the Gates Foundation, Lord Richard Branson, the Segway personal transportation device and even hybrid gasoline-electric automobiles.
I am no scientist, although I know a thing or two about computers, and couldn’t agree with ACSA’s decision more. Justin Sutton has invented (he would use the word integrated) a technology which is just that good. It has the potential to take what the steam locomotive did for North America in the 19th Century and extend it for the Western Hemisphere in just a few years’ time. In fact, by the year 2020, we may have a celebration for the Americas at the new Promontory Point, perhaps in Panama City or Bogota.
Part of the reason the ACSA chose Justin Sutton’s Interstate Traveler over so many other beneficial technologies is the altruism at the heart of Justin’s work. Here are excerpts from their announcement:
“Justin Sutton and the Interstate Traveler Company have created a visionary project that will quite literally change everything we do for the better. It will bring America closer together, and the world closer together.”
“We could all learn a lesson from Justin Sutton: for his perseverance, for his ability to translate dreams into reality and reality into mission. To be able to travel at 250 MPH is not enough for him. To be able to carry people, freight, and automobiles along 250,000 miles or more of rails is not enough for him. To be able to do so without consuming fossil fuels is not enough for him. To do so while producing enough energy to power this country is not enough for him. To be able to export this science and technology to every nation in the world is not enough for him. To be able to do so and build it and run it safely and soundly and change the face of the world as we know it, while making it economically self supporting and sustainable, that became Justin’s goal.”
I have spent a fair amount of time with Justin Sutton and am here to tell you that he is just getting started. Yes, his Hydrogen Superhighway is a tremendous technology which I cannot wait to ride. However, as revolutionary as it is, it is far from Justin’s pinnacle. Instead, it is just one of the ways to stop global warming which we can rely on him to invent and share with the world.
Come to the Green Earth Expo in May of 2008 and you can ask him to share the details of some of the others he has devised.
Sustainable Justice For All!
Corbett Kroehler
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