The subject of teleportation has come up a few times over the last couple weeks around here so I thought I’d publish where we are at so we can all put our heads together on solving this.

As any researcher (person who types into Wikipedia) would know, the most plausible type of teleportation is “recording” the object on the sending end and reconstructing it on the receiving end. This way, no actual matter needs to be transmitted, just the information describing it’s atomic blueprints.

Scientifically, this makes sense. Practically, however, requires destruction of the object (or person!) on the sending end. Who wants to be the politician to try legalizing space murder?

Secondly, if you have a device that can reconstruct anything, piracy of anything would be technically possible. Anyone could just “teleport” Lucy Lui right into your own home. You would no longer need to pirate 3D holograph movies (this is the future after all), just download your favorite actors and sets and have them make it in front of you!

And finally, this method of teleportation requires a device at each end. Getting a device into every home would take too long, so maybe it would be possible to create a simple home appliance upgrade to make it teleportation compatible. Say, a firmware upgrade to your microwave or a particle assembler extention for that old dishwasher. Both of these devices could provide enough radiation insulation to protect consumers enough as long as they don’t get too many x-rays or travel to the moon.

So come on Hive Mind, how do we solve these glaring issues? People need to get places! We don’t have time for walking up stairs and/or riding the train these days.