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Teleportation
12 years ago
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Teleportation seems like a pretty cool idea, right? Who wouldn't love stepping into a box (or on a pad, if you're of the Star Trek mindset) and being sent near-instantly to where you'd like to go? Across town or across the planet, vacation would never be the same. The transportation industry would collapse, traffic jams would be a thing of the past. Unless the lines for using the teleportation station ended up being long...
Of course if you really think about it, there's a bit of an moral dilemma with teleportation...
Wait, did somebody say National Film Board of Canada? Hmmmm...
This one's a classic, too... man, I'm suddenly missing Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Where I first saw this long, long ago and still remember it to this day. And for cryin' out loud, now I see it was done by John R. Dilworth? It probably figures Courage the Cowardly Dog is one of my all-time favorite shows.
Of course if you really think about it, there's a bit of an moral dilemma with teleportation...
Wait, did somebody say National Film Board of Canada? Hmmmm...
This one's a classic, too... man, I'm suddenly missing Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Where I first saw this long, long ago and still remember it to this day. And for cryin' out loud, now I see it was done by John R. Dilworth? It probably figures Courage the Cowardly Dog is one of my all-time favorite shows.
Taking it to the level of consciousness, being, self-awareness and your soul (if you believe in such things)... that's when it gets weird. The same people queasy about teleporting themselves because the old them has to be destroyed would probably have no issues teleporting a plant, or even a mouse. I suppose it gets heavy when it comes to your own being... to what makes you you.
Ron stole Maggie's heart away, and I got Sidney's leg."
There's been at least one SF series based on this, although now I can't remember the name. The teleporters destroyed the person in them, using the bits for biomass for when it received, and the main character spends most of the book moping about 'am I me'. Plus a hive mind (Ha! Remembered their name, Boaty-Bits... look like little metal paper airplanes... and searched for it; I was right about the name of the series, the Saga of Cuckoo, by Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson) that while individually stupid, the more of them there are the more intelligent they are... they suborned the teleporters and started mass-producing themselves.