In an opinion piece for CNN, Professor Saurabh Amin likens Elon Musk’s request for public comment on the design of the Hyperloop — an ambitious high-speed transportation system — to open source web programming, saying that collective design could speed up the process. “But just as today’s open source product designs on the web have benefited and improved from the collective effort of programmers, so has Musk decided to confront the design bottleneck by opening up the design process to the general public — anyone and everyone who cares.” Read the Op-Ed.