I hope that one day we have transporters. You know the ones in Star Trek that let people get down to planets in mere seconds. The ones that could trap your body in a state of suspended animation for years and years and years until a blind guy could figure out how to get you out. The ones that can malfunction and turn people into piles of goo.
They’d be so cool. Think how it would change the world? I could totally get out of Northern Virginia and back to Texas where it isn’t 45 frickin’ degrees in April! It would truly unify the world in ways that the Internet has only begun to. You could keep up with friends and family so much easier. No time off, no plane flights.
Of course you’d probably have really crazy Internet dating. Where you met someone online and then just beamed to their kitchen for dinner. Actually, I had never thought about that. How do they regulate transports in Star Trek? What’s to keep someone from beaming out an inmate from prison? What’s to keep someone from beaming into someone’s house to steal everything?
I guess they must have some sort of authorization mechanism. Some shield around their house where only authorized people could beam through. I guess we know that Starship shields prevent transporting, so I guess that technology could be used to purposely prevent transporting.
Anyway, transporters are cool. If someone could get on that, that’d be swell. Let me know when it’s done, I’ll be the first volunteer. If I get turned into goo at least it will be for the good of mankind.