The person who invents a safe, reliable teleport system will never have to work again. We spend so much of our lives rushing here and there, always trying to get one place ahead in the queue... to have that pressure finally lifted from our shoulders would be a godsend.
Take yesterday. I'm coming off the motorway. I pull over into the exit lane, and at the very last second, rather than slipping in behind arsehole some impatient arsehole in an Audi cuts me up. Everyone wants to be ahead of the person in front.
Or how about when I head across town for my afternoon coffee? I'm walking fast. As I approach a street corner, I see a man heading towards the same corner from another direction, also fast. We're both going the same way, we're going to reach the corner at the same time - one of us will end up stuck behind the other. We both speed up. I spill hot coffee on my hand, but I win the race. This time, the impatient arsehole is me.
We rush everywhere - but imagine if we didn't. Imagine if we could just boil down our molecules into ray form then shoot them across the planet to be reassembled perfectly - minus the fly DNA, Jeff - at a point of our choosing. Or imagine we could BAMF! like the recently departed Nightcrawler. How cool would that be?
I spend up to 2 hours a day in some kind of transit. How much more productively might I use that time? Just think of the books I could read, the stories I could write, the blogs I could surf... though I would still have to find some time to listen to my music, since often these days the only listening time I get is when I'm stuck in the car.
The person who invents a safe, reliable teleport system will never have to work again. Anyone got any ideas?
