Can you imagine the economic impact that simply two innovations would have?
Compact fusion reactors - huge impact to coal mining and oil/gas (still need it for plastics) industries.
Teleportation - major reduction if not elimination of logistics and warehousing industries.
I’ll take one of each please.
And the ultimate destruction of the Teamsters union.
Teleportation would utterly revolutionize the world.
I could live in Montana and work in Scotland.
We could combat drought by channeling rivers through a Tele porter. We could alleviate floods the same way.
The national highway system (and eventually, roads in general) become redundant. Eventually cities would cease to exist because physical proximity no longer matters.
Don’t forget the food synthesizers - “I’ll have a rare T-Bone and maybe a bottle of Jim Beam....”
Teleportation—make travel great again!