Having looked at paradigms in my previous blog, now I’ll attempt to give an interesting example of it. What’s better than looking at what can change the world in the future and integrating science fiction with reality. When it comes to contemplating ideas I like to think big, so this blog will be about teleportation!
I like the subject enough to have formed a solid opinion about it prior to deciding to write about it. So in this case I’ll be writing, drawing information based on my own knowledge I’ve acquired over time and little based on reading present research. In a way I’ll only forming/speculating ideas and opinions.
The concept of teleportation is that such a device would literally disintegrate something to its molecular level, copy all its particles, send the information to a second device in which would ‘paste’ all particles in their exact position in relation to each other instantaneously. Essentially it would be a 3D fax machine potentially cloning matter of all form, ultimately organic matter and life (providing non-physical matter is not be bound by space and time [assuming it is real]).
The technology would most certainly create a paradigm in our society. This has the potential to render travelling obsolete, doesn’t this sound surreal?! There is research being made on teleportation, although it feels like it is far from our technological capabilities today. From what I know, there has been positive results proving teleportation a possibility. I believe on the molecular scale a teleportation experiment was successful somewhere in the world.
This will be revolutionary but there will be many issues and questions that need to be tackled before the tech is developed in a commercial scale. Firstly, how accessible will it be to the public, will it be affordable as a product? Will it be easy/cheap to produce? Who will be able to use it?
How will it be used? We constantly see people use perfectly ordinary tools for creative purposes. Similarly we get the opposite too, some will use for their own gain through unethical methods. It would make it really easy to transport controlled substances into certain places, likewise, the migration of people. Perhaps on the positive side it will allow easier methods to decrease population density in some areas as well as making resources available very easily in places where it isn’t naturally available.
Thinking on an ethical way on the production of this technology also raises issues. Do we consist of non-physical form (soul)? How will this be replicated? The possibility of having a soul has been explored for thousands of years and yet not scientifically proven. The possibility of being affected non-physically in some way can have terrible results on people, imagine, to lose your soul, your being.
Another thing is mechanical failure. Will all machines work all the time? A mechanical failure can potentially result in the permanent loss or distortion of unique things and beings. I can’t seem to think this will be accepted by many people, at least not at the first stages of the existence of this technology. Or the opposite also, the creation of multiple copies, a cloning alternative perhaps.
I seem to have posed more questions than answers. This may seem to be far, yet development is being made, a breakthrough can change everything. So when you hear teleportation, are you for, or against?
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