>>I envision a world which has finally created the teleportion (beam me up, Scotty) box. You stand at a McDonald's counter, speak into a squawk box to give your order, listen to Jack-in-the-Box static with an Indian accent, and out pops your order (well, maybe not YOUR order, but some reasonable facsimile thereof) all lovingly outsourced to ???????
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>>Wouldn't surprise me at all.
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>Can't find an article on it now, but in fact, there are real researchers working on replication (not teleportation, which is impossible based on the laws of physics). Really interesting stuff.
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>Tamar

based on the laws of physics as we know them now.

Perhaps investigation into faster than light travel will produce a multi-dimensional physics which will allow teleportion. Perhaps we will discover a way to completely suspend time while an object is moving from one location to another.

For those of a religious bent, perhaps God will rewrite the Laws of Physics.

At any rate, I am leery of ever saying anything is impossible.