Step 1: Take a bus.
Paint lines on the road.
Add sensors.
Step 2: Rename it a “trackless train.”
Compare it to rail instead of buses.
Let the audience do the rest.
Step 3: Show a sleek CGI aircraft.
Say it will “fly in air.”
Attach the word breakthrough.
Step 4: When people ask what’s new,
reply with: unknown technology.
Nothing here violates physics.
Nothing here reinvents it either.
A trackless train is still a bus.
A render is still a render.
Incremental engineering does not become revolutionary
because the label changed.
This is not fake innovation.
It’s narrative engineering.
China’s real advantage is not that it invents things nobody else can.
It’s that it renames familiar technology, scales the presentation,
and shifts the comparison until scrutiny becomes difficult.
If you compare a bus to rail, it looks impressive.
If you compare a concept to reality, it looks inevitable.
If you control the label, you control the frame.
This is how “unknown technology” is manufactured:
not in laboratories,
but in language, visuals, and repetition.
Progress measured by press releases
will always look faster than progress measured by deployment.
A trackless train is still a bus.
A CGI plane still flies only in Photoshop.