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The 2020s are ushering in a wave of new travel vehicles. New cars, planes, trains, bikes, and more are being invented, and they are unlike any form of travel in the past. The vehicles are electric, green, autonomous, some solar and hydrogen-powered, and loaded with intelligent technologies. The vehicles and their breakthrough capabilities offer exciting new travel opportunities for all of us. Big Travel Breakthroughs 2020s delivers the top new vehicles, prototypes, and concept vehicles rolling out during this decade.

This story contains the adventures of Cordy. She's a spunky 10-year-old girl who finds herself facing a new school in a new place. She doesn't know anyone in her new neighborhood and has no friends. With one big exception: her dog, Bash. Cordy remedies the situation by helping to start her school's girls' cross-country running team. And, she embarks on an enchanting adventure where she happens upon a magical forest with a firefly highway and talking animals like opossums, squirrels, owls, and birds.

Robotic technology is one of the 21st century's most disruptive forces of innovation. It is significantly impacting and changing virtually every aspect of life and global industry. Here, we list and showcase dozens of the most exciting and powerful bots that have recently been created by the world's leading roboticists. The fun news briefs cover a lot of robotic territory. Some examples: service bots like restaurant bots. Also: "Jeeves with AI", who serves as a virtual assistant in your virtual home.

In Important Innovations: Collection, Volume 4, we showcase innovation in green, sustainable, zero-emissions energy innovation. The examples are fascinating and include outer space orbiting "magic carpets" of solar panels that soak up the sun and transmit electricity back to earth. Also, innovation in fusion technology, which is the same process that keeps the sun and stars burning for billions of years. Nuclear fusion converts a small amount of hydrogen into electricity and promises to make other forms of generating electricity obsolete.

The first volume of this collection focuses on the latest in transportation innovation. The future offers many game-changing modes of travel. We provide a guide and list the latest developments and prototypes of flying cars, hyperloops and hydrogen powered trains, hypersonic and supersonic jet travel being developed by DARPA and the airline industry, the space travel milestones being reached by entrepreneurs like Richard Branson of Virgin, and many other exciting new developments.