XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article , proto@panix.com   
   says...   
   >   
   > In article <130120141307202555%YourName@YourISP.com>,   
   >  Your Name  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Of course, if sci-fi really predicts the future, then cars of any sort   
   > > will be useless because we'll simply use Star Trek transporters to beam   
   > > everywhere. Live in New York, but work in Sydney? No problem, get there   
   > > in a fraction of a second.   :-)   
   >   
   > OBsf: Before proposing that read "Think Like a Dinosaur".   
   >   
   > Plus some argue that transporters kill the transported and create a   
   > new person at the other end.   
      
   You are makign assumptions about the working of the transporter.  The   
   concept of scan and reproduce works that way, the concept of step   
   through a wormhole does not.  And there are doubtless other concepts.   
      
   > Of course, we are continually recreating   
   > ourselves anyway so the point may be moot.   
      
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