Beaming the Business Traveler

We already have the technology to beam particles of matter through space. NASA's done it. Just not with people yet. So don't get your hopes up, but think about this.

Teleportation technology will revolutionize business travel. Once we figure out how to have humans do it, at least. According to NASA, we've already teleported the quantum state of individual atoms from one place to another.

When you can live in a beach house in Thailand, and commute daily to NYC, the world will truly shrink. Hell, you could own a condo beneath the lunar surface and commute to Microsoft's InterPacific Space Elevator. Beaming will ensure everyone and no one is a business traveler.

We won't even need Scotty. Just a large, glorified fax machine.

(Of course, this gives a whole new frightening meaning to lost luggage...)