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Imagine for a minute that the technology that enables Star Trek transporters is suddenly real -- it's being adopted nearly universally. Obviously, that capability would shake up everything. Within a year or so, transporter pads would be on every street corner and in every driveway. A trip from New York to LA would take five minutes and cost, maybe, $20.
Supporting the technology would open up a series of business opportunities. Training courses would crop up explaining how to install transporters, how to tell them where you want to go, how to repair them, how to incorporate them into your business strategy, and more.
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The gotcha would be that while transporter technology might extend our knowledge of fundamental physics, most people wouldn't dive into learning the foundational physics principles behind the technology. Instead, they would only want to know how to get from Pittsburgh to Peoria.
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