Teleportation technology has been seen by many as a Frankenstein event in humanity’s long history. Although the technology has inspired many with its numerous potential applications, it has also terrified a lot of pessimists. Teleportation is a technology that promises to provide instantaneous travel from one location, for instance, Bangkok to another site far from the earth like the Alpha Centauri star system. Such power is one that is worth grasping after. Some have gone ahead to suggest that such power can be humankind’s saviour and additionally any incidental technology from it could eventually alter what it means to be human. Questions have emerged about how such technology, with the potential ability to rebuild a digitized copy of someone
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All this notwithstanding, several science fiction literature and media have been developed surrounding this concept. One of the notable films is the Star Trek franchise and The Fly. The critically acclaimed film The Fly by Cronenberg released in 1986, depicted a scientist who was reprogrammed by his own teleportation machine. The film shows how the science behind teleportation run amok and the inventor scientist evolves into a hybrid fly creature. Another Hollywood film showcasing the effects of teleportation is the 2008 film by Doug Liman the Jumper. Its plot revolves around how a teleporting super human or globetrotter is hunted down by a rogue organization that believes that such abilities should not be possessed by average people who they consider as unethical. The globetrotter uses their ability to steal money from bank vaults. However, there have been earlier depictions of this concept found in 20th century novels. For instance, in the novel by Albert Bester, The Stars my Destination published in 1957, it discussed the complications that emerge from a futuristic world that has accommodated the notion of teleporting—or as was put in the book, …show more content…
A team of six lead by the physicist Charles Bennet, an IBM fellow, concluded that the idea of teleportation was possible. The only caveat to their conclusion was that the original object used in the quantum teleportation must be destroyed. Their explanation for such a caveat was based on the reality that original object would be disrupted during scanning. The official report by the IBM team was released in 1993 through the Physical Review Letters. Following this pronouncement, other researchers have done experiments to prove the concept of teleportation by using systems such as trapped ions, single photons and coherent light fields (IBM Research, 2012). A team in Caltech University, in 1998, were successful in conducting the first teleportation experiment by teleporting a photon. As was earlier predicted by Charles Bennet, the original scanned photon was destroyed after the replica appeared on the other end of the one metre coaxial cable (California Institute of Technology, 1998). The current developments include the combination of quantum teleportation with other components such as telecommunication and quantum physics, producing promising and astounding results. The experiments conducted by these researchers are abomination free and are far from the depictions in science
All this notwithstanding, several science fiction literature and media have been developed surrounding this concept. One of the notable films is the Star Trek franchise and The Fly. The critically acclaimed film The Fly by Cronenberg released in 1986, depicted a scientist who was reprogrammed by his own teleportation machine. The film shows how the science behind teleportation run amok and the inventor scientist evolves into a hybrid fly creature. Another Hollywood film showcasing the effects of teleportation is the 2008 film by Doug Liman the Jumper. Its plot revolves around how a teleporting super human or globetrotter is hunted down by a rogue organization that believes that such abilities should not be possessed by average people who they consider as unethical. The globetrotter uses their ability to steal money from bank vaults. However, there have been earlier depictions of this concept found in 20th century novels. For instance, in the novel by Albert Bester, The Stars my Destination published in 1957, it discussed the complications that emerge from a futuristic world that has accommodated the notion of teleporting—or as was put in the book, …show more content…
A team of six lead by the physicist Charles Bennet, an IBM fellow, concluded that the idea of teleportation was possible. The only caveat to their conclusion was that the original object used in the quantum teleportation must be destroyed. Their explanation for such a caveat was based on the reality that original object would be disrupted during scanning. The official report by the IBM team was released in 1993 through the Physical Review Letters. Following this pronouncement, other researchers have done experiments to prove the concept of teleportation by using systems such as trapped ions, single photons and coherent light fields (IBM Research, 2012). A team in Caltech University, in 1998, were successful in conducting the first teleportation experiment by teleporting a photon. As was earlier predicted by Charles Bennet, the original scanned photon was destroyed after the replica appeared on the other end of the one metre coaxial cable (California Institute of Technology, 1998). The current developments include the combination of quantum teleportation with other components such as telecommunication and quantum physics, producing promising and astounding results. The experiments conducted by these researchers are abomination free and are far from the depictions in science