What Happened To My Jet-pack?

[BeanCounterGrad'03]

Pretty interesting article...I didn't realize that we (the human race) have achieved teleportation.

The future ain't what it use to be

[UNTflyer]

Pretty interesting article...I didn't realize that we (the human race) have achieved teleportation.

The future ain't what it use to be

I remember a Science Channel episode talking about teleporting. In order to do it like Star Trek, where the atoms of your body were separated, converted to energy, then beamed to another location and reassembled, would take so much energy that it would be impractical... not to mention, painful for the transported.

The likely solution, according to this futurist, would be to make a copy of your body, put it in a buffer and beam it, reassemble it, then destroy the original. That doesn't sound much better.

[BeanCounterGrad'03]

It does sound painful...sounds like there is a pretty good chance that part of you would get "lost" in the transition. What if you teleported somewhere and came out on the other side less of a man than you did when you entered.

[KingDL1]

Popular Mechanics has a lot of off the wall future stuff, but anything that falls fast or could crash like a the revolving airports they predicted for the US, we will never see. In this case the closest thing maybe a station in space. But the dangers, time efficiency and costs have to make it usable.

I saw an video article where they had a computer system built that was controlled by hand movements like in the minority report. But who wants to stand all day and swing their hands around wildly. Some things are here now like e-paper and will probably replace most books and surely all newspapers in the near future. The OLED technology is being developed now for consumer use. I believe the wall street journal and other publications already have subscribers that get an e-version sent to them via Internet/3g technology. Books will be download or delivered on memory chips such as flash drives for e-paper devices.

The Future of Electronic Paper

Talks Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense

[UNTflyer]

It does sound painful...sounds like there is a pretty good chance that part of you would get "lost" in the transition.

Yes, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Not a pretty sight.

[meangreendork]

Yes, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Not a pretty sight.

Ah, but those transporters are equipped with...you guessed it...Heisenberg Compensators that make up for the fact you can't get an exact lock on individual atoms speed or position at the same time. How that works is fiction, of course. However, the likelihood of warp-speed transport or space folding is more likely. Basically, it involves moving the space around an object as opposed to the object itself, and then letting the space of the destination point fill in the blank when the transported space and object appear where they need to be.

Edited May 29, 2009 by meangreendork

[UNTflyer]

I just uncoupled the Heisenberg Compensators, so the transporters will be offline for the next 6 hours.

[meangreendork]

Just run without them. We can make Soylent Green Pudding.

Edited May 29, 2009 by meangreendork

[keith]

It does sound painful...sounds like there is a pretty good chance that part of you would get "lost" in the transition. What if you teleported somewhere and came out on the other side less of a man than you did when you entered.

Or more?

Keith

[UNTflyer]

Just run without them. We can make Soylent Green Pudding.

Was does this pudding look like my cousin Al?