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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
If practical and cost-effective teleportation becomes possible, how would it impact the world? As an example, rather than having to get on a plane you just go to your local teleport booth down the street and instantly arrive where you need to be anywhere on the planet.
Could it be the end of the need for most modes of transport? Planes, automobiles, and other mechanized modes of transport would become obsolete since, like with most technological advances, the standards would change. Likewise, packing for a trip would be unneeded since you can just return home and come back to get anything that you need.
As an example, in the days of manual typewriters you only retyped something if it was truly necessary. Usually, you just corrected minor errors and let it go. Now, there's little concern about making multiple minor changes since it's so easy and, in turn, the standards for documents is now that they be letter perfect.
In the same way, would practical and cost-effective teleportation result in a faster world? It would seem so since travel times would be reduced to little more than the time it takes to walk to one booth and then from another booth to your destination. A few hours to make a trip is acceptable now due to the limitations of travel technology, but this might be reduced to a small number of minutes.
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It will never happen. Never mind the physics involved and the need for a Star Trek style Heisenberg compensator to overcome the randomness of quantum events; the Mystery Writers Guild would never allow it. It would be the end of "locked room" mysteries.