Boxes
on wheels burning one of biggest natures’ treasure rides on concrete
and asphalt, that covers huge areas all across the planet... Today this
is “most advanced” technology available for masses, but it is more than
100 year old and extremely inefficient, and extremely harmful for
ecology, and dangerous for everyone, and... I hate cars. I dream of
clean, ecological, pure way of travelling.
My vision
Imagine
no roads! Only walking and bicycle paths are left, so enormous areas
that were hidden beneath concrete are now available. Plant trees there,
build parks, create rivers and enjoy the silence of world without cars.
If
we do not have roads, whole arrangement of a city could be totally
different. It could be anything You like! If a building does not require
nor road coming to it, nor parking, just imagine where the building
could be built, how it could look like, and how buildings might be
arranged!
With
no need to spent time on travel, You could work in any county, live You
life in multiple places! For example dinner in Paris, swim in Hawaii,
go skiing to Himalayas and so on.
But how people and all stuff would get from one place to another fast enough?
How do we travel then?
Teleportation
is perfect solution! Well, there is no such technology, not even
something close to it. What is more, it would probably require enormous
amount of energy and fastest supercomputers and many more. With our
current energy production methods, it would only do more damage to the
planet. Or not? Maybe there is already technology that could evolve into
something like teleport device?
How it might work?
Open some kind of gate (wormhole) between two point in space-time? No. I think, more logical is the principle described in Star Trek:
scan and disassemble target object, convert all the information to a
signal, transfer signal, and then assemble identical object in other
place.
Step 1. Lets start from simplest object, and “teleport” only geometrical form. I thing we already have such technology: 3D scanner plus 3D printer. This allows to copy shape, but not material. But it follows the concept: scan - convert - transfer - assemble.
Step 2. Building object with same materials. 3D printing might do the trick.
Problem is to collect all the info while scanning: not only external
shape, but also detailed inner structure and material info. Printing (or
assembling) is much more complex in this case too.
Step 3. Scanning moving and extremely complex object: items with different pressure areas, gasses, liquids inside and so on.
Step 4.
Scanning signals inside objects and “powering” compiled object with
these signals. For example, “copy-paste” biochemical and electrical
impulses and states inside alive beings.
Step X. I
think there are even more problems, than I've described. For example,
psychological and ethical aspects of the fact that You are disassembled
for a moment while going through teleport!
As for me, only technology that might work is nano-robots.
I
will describe my vision of nanorobotics in next post. As for
teleportation, this is one most desired technology, that will change
everything. It is pity, that it still requires many breakthroughs in
science and technology.
