Speaking of teleportation, quantum teleportation is a reality, if only in very rudimentary stages. It essentially copies the properties of one particle to another instantaneously. Of course, as stated in the link below, it only works 25% of the time and the idea of moving this up to anything larger like actual objects is very unlikely.
Until “packet loss” is minimized to a very low percentage teleportation will be impossible, as Soviet stated.
I’d perfer no packet loss, thank you. I enjoy my package.
But seriously, I totally understand what you meant. It we can’t have near perfect data retention through transfer, teleportation would be unsafe and unstable.
And the problem with Quantum-based teleportation (of course, as of right now, that’s the only feasible form of teleportation, anyway) is that it would be a strictly 1-to-1 system.
In order to teleport from my house to the moon, we would have to have a linked-Quantum pair set up and then have one put into* the teleport at my house and one at the moon teleport. In order for my best friend in Russia (I don’t casually know anybody in Russia, by the way) to transport to the moon, there would need to be another linked pair, and it’s two would have to be put into* the teleport at his house and in another teleport on the moon. Essentially, it would be likely that if this ever happens and becomes a mass-reality**, there would most likely be several teleport “hubs” around the world, each with a different porter to the other hubs, in several major cities. Then space-faring corporations and institutions (NASA and the like, but probably not NASA, since they are already having trouble with funding) would have their linked pairs set up and installed at their base of operations and another in a teleport on a rocket or something, and then sent to the destination.
Of course, this is all if we can minimize packet loss to an acceptable level of safety.
*By “put in” I mean incorporate them into a teleportation device however it would be necessary. As I am not a Quantum physicist, I do not know what the exact specifications of such a device would be.
**By “mass-reality” I mean becomes used in everyday life by more than researchers, rich people, and governments. Example: Private helicopters =/= mass-reality. Television = mass-reality, on the basis that a majority of people have a television or access to a television.
We have complete confidence in you. :freeman:
Hey yeah, about that cat…
What cat? 
With the teleporter in hl2…
The cat got turned inside out during testing.
He was quoting Alyx… I think. An inside joke for all HL2 players. Which we all should be. If you don’t own HL2, gtfo the forums. nao. So says stoic smiley.
This.
this
did you know you can break the small teleporter in the same scene?
I can’t wait until I’m an old man and get to use the “when I was your age” card…
I’m going to be such a great luddite. My only hope is that I’ll be able to say “I told you so!” at least once to all of society before I die, when the Resonance Cascade happens at either the LHC or the NIF. :freeman:
(Not that I’m actually against technology or anything. I find science fascinating. Just that I personally believe that hopes and dreams for a technologically utopian, perfect, happy-go-lucky future, where all our problems will have been solved by GLaDOS/HAL/WOPR/GERTY/SkyNET/VIKI/Asimo/<>, are extremely unlikely. 
)
Also, I hate to say it, but part of me is actually kind of sad at the exponential rate at which technology is now increasing. I think it makes it more difficult to see or appreciate each piece of the puzzle that helped to get us to where we are today. It all becomes lost in one long massive stream of innovation. I still like hearing/reading about new gadgets, but when you can start referring to science and technology collectively like that… “new gadgets…” I don’t know, something about it stops being special somehow. Maybe I’m just weird like that though. 
How? I’ve tried shoving a CPU through it, teleporting myself, teleporting an object into another, but it seems invincible.
Also, more on eternal life:
https://discovermagazine.com/2007/apr/how-to-grow-a-new-limb
I’m about 50% sure that I’ll die at the same time as the rest of humanity.
Whether it be from AI growing too smart, from humans killing each other in war, from a natural disaster of some sort, etc; I’m pretty positive we don’t have much time left at this rate. We can’t handle our own progress.
An when I was your age, we didn’t have no stinkin telepathy! We had to put it on forums!
By typing!
WITH OUR HANDS!
And if you got carpal tunnel, you were [COLOR=‘White’]screwed. :fffuuu:
In all seriousness, however, I don’t think this stuff is leading towards
happy-go-lucky utopia. I think that people are going to try to make a utopia out of this, and that’s why it’s going to be hell. The only feasible way a utopia would work is if everyone thought exactly alike.
Which, with some of this tech, could actually be possible…
But let’s not go there.
And I, for one, actually don’t get any less excited with each new shiny tech.
Of course, that could just be my steampunk-fanboy brain, but there you go.
@rusilker
Naw. We can handle the tech.
I’ll explain why tomorrow, as I need to download Prototype off steam now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlVBHvuSxyM
(you don’t have to jump on it, just teleport more than 1 object a few times back and forth until it breaks)
Dude, after reading that, I was totally going to post that exact same Louis CK clip. He’s a champ. And absolutely right, I do the same damn thing with my cell phone, heh. 
You teleport something from the 2nd pad (the one that doesn’t start with a cactus on it) that’s too big to fit into the first pad.
A computer tower did the trick for me
Xbox version this was, got me a nice achievement
tl;dr
I’m scared for the world if alot of people have your attitude, I am only about 0.03% sure of the world going to shit in my lifetime.
Ah. Here it is.
https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-9318-brain-chip-may-help-the-blind-see.html
For those that didn’t understand that, this will allow you to download/upload thoughts onto a hard drive and, presumably, send them as an E-mail attachment in Yahoo!
That seems simple enough, but if, for example, someone sells you a though of having sex with a hooker, is it just a though, porn, or prostitution?
And how long until we forget real life and just start playing thoughts over and over again like some perverse Ipod playlist?