[cdefreese]

Think of how this could affect our society. If teleportation were to become reality:

-no more need for cars
-no more need for oil (besides heating)
-no more stores, you just order it online, and it gets zapped into your living room from the warehouse.
-no more semi-trucks, trains, or airplanes
-travel anywhere from next door to the moon in seconds.
-many jobs would disappear. A few would spring up.

It is just mind boggling to think of the consequences.

[Krafty123]

and no more US - Saddam would teleport us full of toxic sludge/germs/radioactive waste.

[ErnBatavia]

you just order it online, and it gets zapped into your living room

Would this work with Ann Coulter....?

[SoothingDave]

-no more stores, you just order it online, and it gets zapped into your living room from the warehouse.

Nah. All you need is some bulk matter. Then you just program it into whatever you desire.

Talk about leftovers! You could make yesterday's garbage into today's dinner.

SD

[DannyTN]

The jobs could be a problem in the short run. But the demand for transporters would be huge, and their would probably be a variety of sizes.

Retail stores would still exist because people would want to see it first. But they would be reduced in number. Why have 500 across the nation when 5 might do?

Urbanization might stop and people would return to rural areas. Productivity would soar.

Overseas travel and tourism would soar. So would globalization. Cultures would rapidly blend.

On the dark side... Promiscuity would increase. Demonstrations would become larger as travel costs are mitigated. Diseases would spread more rapidly.

Observatories in hostile environments would be much easier to maintain.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Well.... not exactly!

-no more need for oil (besides heating)

You will still need oil for:

- factories to make the products you are teleporting
- generating electicity to run your appliances
and of course

- Mega Power Plants to run those power hungry teleporters.