QUOTE(Bobaloo @ Mar 7 2007, 05:11 PM)
I think I know what book you're talking about. I never read it, or saw it for that matter. But I've heard it referenced a few times. i think the guy was talking about using pneumatic tubes for transportation or something like that
Or maybe that was a dream I had once.

Google a review of the book, there's alot of them that can explain it better than I can. But here's some points he makes: (From a reveiw, not from me)
1) We often exaggerate in imagining the long- term emotional effects certain events will have on us.
2) Most of us tend to have a basic level of happiness which we revert to eventually.
3) People generally err in imagining what will make them happy.
4) People tend to find ways of rationalizing unhappy outcomes so as to make them more acceptable to themselves.
5) People tend to repeat the same errors in imagining what will make them happy.
6) Events and outcomes which we dread may when they come about turn into new opportunities for happiness.
7) Many of the most productive and creative people are those who are continually unhappy with the world- and thus strive to change it.
8) Happiness is rarely as good as we imagine it to be, and rarely lasts as long as we think it will. The same mistaken expectations apply to unhappiness.