So today a friend approached me with a interesting question,

“Do you think that if teleports where invented everyone would become fat?”

This instantly sprung into a conversation about possible ideas for teleportation technology, we spoke at length about the possibilities for this technology and quickly I realised that the easiest and simplest way to create a teleportation device would be to basically ‘copy and paste’ a human.

The first teleportation portal would copy the humans down to cells, skeletal structure and position as well as their thoughts, memories and feelings then after having that information safely downloaded it would kill the teleportee.

The second portal would then basically 3D print the individual cells of the teleportee from the save file making it appear like the person actaully teleported.

This theory’s in turn raises a lot of questions in a future were we might have this technology as it has a possibility to be used alongside editing software to possibly fix somebody’s disabilities or genetic imperfections. If this technology existed I honestly believe that teleportation would be the last thing it would be used for.

I’ve not looked into this theory or even checked if it exists as it’s never been my area of scientific interest but I would really like to know what other people’s opinions and thought on this are as this sort of theory sounds quite interesting to me.

Along side this, a follow up question to this possibility of teleportation technology would be, when we are advanced enough to make this form of teleportation technology is there really even a need for it or would it just be a gimmick or something that rich individuals would have to show off to others, i mean if you had the ability to save somebody’s whole life onto a computer how long would it take somebody to combine that with the skeleton of a decent AI program and create the closest thing to “real AI” that humanity might ever see.

I know this was kind of long, has possibly too many counter points and such but if you’ve read this then thank you for your time and any comments would be welcomed as this Initial question has sparked the thoughts of both me and my friend.