[Wonder Warthog]

"Instead of shipping parts we will be transferring files and products will be fabricated locally. Even the left wingers will see that using 3D printers for manufacturing reduces the products carbon footprint since there will be no required shipping."

Sci-fi story had that as the basis for interstellar travel. "Way stations" printed/cloned new bodies. Only the "mind" and "3d Code" for the body was transmitted as coded radio transmissions. After transmission, the "left behind" body was dissolved and recycled.

[sidetracked]

I remember that story. Whhere the guy didn’t age as long as he was inside his house and was 100 + years old? And the govt was just starting to investigate how old he was?