[Cxkslei]

What would the world be like if:
1) You could travel to other places via the internet
2) You could travel to other places by fine.

If you don't understand what if you talked to a particular someone and entered a code on a phone or the computer that would allow you to bypass normal physics and appear near them aka teleportation.

This post has been edited by Mocking Bird: Sep 12 2007, 08:16 PM

[Evin290]

I imagine it'd be similar to Heisenberg's Shaman: The River, an beautifully-crafted piece written by SlashingUK.

This post has been edited by Evin290: Sep 12 2007, 08:12 PM

[Un_t0uch]

Trips would cost ALOT less

Edit: You spelled Philosophers wrong.

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[Synapsi]

Unless there were more security measures, wouldn't terrorism be a whole lot easier since they can teleport there, drop a bomb, then leave? It would be better for commuters, of course, and would be the perfect solution for the environment.

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[ttttttttt]

Lots of people would be getting murdered and robbed.

[SlashingUK]

I imagine it'd be similar to Heisenberg's Shaman: The River, an beautifully-crafted piece written by SlashingUK.

Flatterer.

I think people take technological innovation in their stride very easily. Imagine, 200 years ago, you could have asked, "What would the world be like if you could instantaneously contact anyone in the world and have a conversation with them." Now we've got phones and think nothing of it.

And compared to travel before the invention of flight, modern jet travel is very little different to teleportation. I suspect there'd be a lot more jet-lag in the world, only it would be called net-lag. We'd all think it was pretty cool for the first couple of years, then everyone would be doing it and no one would give it a second thought.

There'd be a lot more obesity, as no one would walk anywhere at all.
Travel-related pollution would drop, but this also depends on whether bulk shipments of cargo could travel this way.
Roads and railroads would fall into disrepair.
Many traditional travel companies would collapse and there would be an enormous shift in employment away from travel towards telecoms service provision.
Strange destinations would appear as popular hotspots, rather like the profile of unexpectedly popular web sites today.
Chat rooms would be real rooms, rather than internet bulletin boards.
There would need to be special policing facilities to stop kids or pets accidentally teleporting themselves who-knows-where, and for "authorities" to track escapees travelling around the world.
Call and usage charges would sky-rocket, and skype would make a killing.
Passports would become a thing of the past and national boundaries would start to disappear, unless you had an immigration officer on every telephone.
Maybe they would build a system of telephone-exchange-border controls - "I'm sorry, you cannot dial any further as you don't have valid paper work"

That's what I can think of in 5 minutes, but I'm sure there'd be a lot more impact.

[Nirvana]

um .......that would lead to some awkward moments with telemarketers


"want to change your long distance service ........or buy some pants....."

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I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

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I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

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They do have teleports avalible all ready. The two problems are, one, biggest thing we have teleported was probably a pencil and if not that, it would something a lot smaller. And two, to teleport a human, we would have to create a teleport that could re-organize our atoms so that we re-atomize (?) with our atoms in the places that we were in before teleporting.

[Cxkslei]

I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

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They do have teleports avalible all ready. The two problems are, one, biggest thing we have teleported was probably a pencil and if not that, it would something a lot smaller. And two, to teleport a human, we would have to create a teleport that could re-organize our atoms so that we re-atomize (?) with our atoms in the places that we were in before teleporting.

Source because I've never heard such a thing existing in current times.

[Evin290]

Source because I've never heard such a thing existing in current times.

Quantum teleportation exists, which is teleporting an atom or two, but nothing even remotely as large as a pencil has ever been quantum teleported.

[Un_t0uch]

I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

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They do have teleports avalible all ready. The two problems are, one, biggest thing we have teleported was probably a pencil and if not that, it would something a lot smaller. And two, to teleport a human, we would have to create a teleport that could re-organize our atoms so that we re-atomize (?) with our atoms in the places that we were in before teleporting.

1. There would be way too many faults.
a) When switching aroudn the atoms 1 error could kill you.
b) Something as big as a human will take long.

[Guest_Take This Post Seriously_*]

I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

~Take This Post Lightly

They do have teleports avalible all ready. The two problems are, one, biggest thing we have teleported was probably a pencil and if not that, it would something a lot smaller. And two, to teleport a human, we would have to create a teleport that could re-organize our atoms so that we re-atomize (?) with our atoms in the places that we were in before teleporting.

Source because I've never heard such a thing existing in current times.

My source is a book called in six days, which you may have heard me reference several times. From my understanding, the book is copyrighted in 2000 and the said experiment has never been used to teleport more than two atoms at a time, because among other things a complete knowledge of the exact composition of the teleported material is neccesary. It was first performed in '98 or '99, according to the book, which is most likely trustworthy.
A pencil is most likely way too big, at present.

Edit: Evin! You beat me!

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This post has been edited by Take This Post Seriously: Sep 14 2007, 10:35 PM

[Cheimcal Romance...]

I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

~Take This Post Lightly

They do have teleports avalible all ready. The two problems are, one, biggest thing we have teleported was probably a pencil and if not that, it would something a lot smaller. And two, to teleport a human, we would have to create a teleport that could re-organize our atoms so that we re-atomize (?) with our atoms in the places that we were in before teleporting.

Source because I've never heard such a thing existing in current times.

My source is a book called in six days, which you may have heard me reference several times. From my understanding, the book is copyrighted in 2000 and the said experiment has never been used to teleport more than two atoms at a time, because among other things a complete knowledge of the exact composition of the teleported material is neccesary. It was first performed in '98 or '99, according to the book, which is most likely trustworthy.
A pencil is most likely way too big, at present.

Edit: Evin! You beat me!

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It was in the news and I don't know what to google to find any thing related...

I'm not the next physics genius...

[Guest_Take This Post Seriously_*]

I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

~Take This Post Lightly

They do have teleports avalible all ready. The two problems are, one, biggest thing we have teleported was probably a pencil and if not that, it would something a lot smaller. And two, to teleport a human, we would have to create a teleport that could re-organize our atoms so that we re-atomize (?) with our atoms in the places that we were in before teleporting.

Source because I've never heard such a thing existing in current times.

My source is a book called in six days, which you may have heard me reference several times. From my understanding, the book is copyrighted in 2000 and the said experiment has never been used to teleport more than two atoms at a time, because among other things a complete knowledge of the exact composition of the teleported material is neccesary. It was first performed in '98 or '99, according to the book, which is most likely trustworthy.
A pencil is most likely way too big, at present.

Edit: Evin! You beat me!

~Take This Post Very Seriously

It was in the news and I don't know what to google to find any thing related...

I'm not the next physics genius...

I believe you. Since this source is seven years old, I can well imagine it progressing more! The only thing I don't understand is why it's not more publicized...I can't see why people are more fascinated that 50 Cent is a billionare than that teleportation is possible...

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[Cheimcal Romance...]

I think it would be great, and according to quantum laws, it could be possible eventually. Obviously it would have billions of problems, but initially it would be quite nice to be able to go wherever you wanted. It would eliminate commuting, and it would also render cars unneccesary altogether. It would probably halve or even quarter worldwide air pollution!
Plus, vacations would be a lot cheaper.

~Take This Post Lightly

They do have teleports avalible all ready. The two problems are, one, biggest thing we have teleported was probably a pencil and if not that, it would something a lot smaller. And two, to teleport a human, we would have to create a teleport that could re-organize our atoms so that we re-atomize (?) with our atoms in the places that we were in before teleporting.

Source because I've never heard such a thing existing in current times.

My source is a book called in six days, which you may have heard me reference several times. From my understanding, the book is copyrighted in 2000 and the said experiment has never been used to teleport more than two atoms at a time, because among other things a complete knowledge of the exact composition of the teleported material is neccesary. It was first performed in '98 or '99, according to the book, which is most likely trustworthy.
A pencil is most likely way too big, at present.

Edit: Evin! You beat me!

~Take This Post Very Seriously

It was in the news and I don't know what to google to find any thing related...

I'm not the next physics genius...

I believe you. Since this source is seven years old, I can well imagine it progressing more! The only thing I don't understand is why it's not more publicized...I can't see why people are more fascinated that 50 Cent is a billionare than that teleportation is possible...

~Take This Post Seriously

I don't really know why people like to listen to music by rappers and emo rock stars then listen to Iron Maiden.

I don't relaly understand why. I think the most accurate guess I could make as to why that happens would be a reference in Part 3 of the movie in this website.

I hope this link works, I hand typed it from memory...

Its not advised that you watch it unless you have a lot of time as the video itself is nearly two hours and part 3 itself is ~40 minutes.

[Un0]

We'd take a while to get used to it, but then the generation born with such technology within easy grasp probably wouldn't blink an eye at it... example would be our generation, born into the "Internet Age". To many of us, the Internet is just...there. It's hard to fathom an age before the Internet. Likewise for people in the future, such methods of transportation would just be...mundane.

Humans are really flexible...

[Definition]

It really wouldn't be the same. For example, that bridge down in Venice. You walk on it you feel the rocks glide on your shoes. On the net, you are strapped to a microphone and probably looking at the bridge at the next best resolution other than the naked eye.