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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Write-in: the orgazmatron from Woody Allen's Sleeper
Serious answer: Star Trek-style transporters would have by far the greatest impact on society of any of those technologies.
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Technically speaking, the replicator and Transporter are the same technologies. If you have something that can freely convert matter to energy to matter again according to a set pattern, you have it all. The Transporter is like that machine in the Prestige. Theoretically, the person that goes in "dies", and a new person comes out at the other end without knowing the difference.