“Technology to get an individual from anyplace on Earth to any other place in less than an hour” ... so, a mobile-platform-launched ICBM that you can climb into. I’d believe that the military would have developed that for that sake of some capability or other. It’s not relevant to any plausible civilian application, however.
(The speculative SpaceX suborbital rocket thing, IMHO, is not credible evidence against my point. :) )
(The speculative SpaceX suborbital rocket thing, IMHO, is not credible evidence against my point. :) )