Africa, Big Buildings, High Speed Trains, Robot Ears and Eyes

Two of the staples of cyberpunk are gleaming superbuildings and crushing inner-city poverty. I just read an article about information technology in Ghana that just oozed cyberpunk.
Amtrak must die? Sure but, let’s start thinking seriously about real high-speed rail in this country. And I don’t mean wasting time on nonsense like maglev. I means spending hundreds of billions of dollars on specially designed high speed rail lines totally separate from the freight lines passenger trains are forced to travel on now.
Robot vision and robot speech recogition continues to improve and grow cheap.