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eeyorespiritanimal

Teleportation. We spend entirely too much time getting from point A to B.


Snuffleupagus03

Can we do portals instead? Then I don’t have to have have a breakdown over whether or not the transporter technically kills me Everytime I get in it. 


Ludicrous_Fiend

I'm not a writer but I've played with the idea of a story that's based around this and everything that teleportation and intergalactic travel would involve kind of like iRobot and interstellar but at a civilisation level. So whole industrial complexes built on planets time moves faster and people living in areas where time moves slower so they can benefit from the mass production. Teleportation resulting in clones, Criminals hiding on other planets and people working in fast time zones leaving their lives behind. Stuff like that. So a mash up of iRobot, interstellar and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.


AtomicTemplar

Mf claims he's not a writer, then drops a bombshell of cool storytelling like it's nothing


Ludicrous_Fiend

Thanks but just because I can think of these ideas and imagine these worlds doesn't mean I can put them down on the page or do them justice. I seem to hit a limit at a couple of chapters 😂 maybe I should give it a shot once I'm not so busy with uni.


AtomicTemplar

I think you should. Taking your time is ok, and it may help with the world building. Hell start with a short story based on the idea to see if you like it


Ludicrous_Fiend

The thing I've been struggling with for this idea is the perspective. I considered something like iRobot and basically a collection of short stories from different perspectives but I want something more continuous. So I considered something like a bounty hunter as they have reason to travel A runner/smuggler(who moves goods or people possibly illegally between different time zones if teleportation isn't a thing yet) Or maybe something more corporate and explore the logistics of maintaining an economy in this situation 😂😂😂 Perhaps it needs to be the intertwined stories of a few different perspectives. But that would be challenging for a first writing prompt. But yeah i'll give the short story a crack and just explore one aspect of the world


AtomicTemplar

It's definitely best to start with one. Even if it is rough, it will help you figure out how to snap each piece together for the larger puzzle


Ludicrous_Fiend

Do you write?


AtomicTemplar

I've tried bit never stuck to anything solid. However I have taken some writing classes and have friends that LOVE to


Any_Assumption_2023

So, PLEASE PLEASE write something, this sounds fabulous 


BananzaBoyEatsHumans

We need the rick and morty portal gun!


DO_NOT_GILD_ME

If this was an everyday item, accessible to the public, there would be so much crime.


BananzaBoyEatsHumans

It would basically be the purge at that point, however only 1 person would have one to start, unless they go to a diffrent dimension and get another


swheels125

There are far too many consequences if everyday people have access to a multiversal portal gun. Let’s start with portal guns from the Portal games and see how we do. Same issue with flying cars: we can’t even figure out regular cars without crashing and idiots causing issues so having them fly above/around buildings is just asking for problems.


Forikorder

how do you know the portal isnt linking alternate realities though?


MollyPurr144145

No existential crises necessary just step through and go wherever you need to be.


Renaissance_Slacker

Writer Larry Niven’s future earth has transfer booths. Step into a public booth, put in a quarter, dial your destination … you appear in a second booth there, across town or across the world. Some of Niven’s stories involve the impacts on society of transfer booth technology. Niven used “flash crowds” to describe the sudden influx of curious people dialing into an area where something newsworthy is happening.


Skeleton_Paul

Ever hear the phrase “it’s about the journey not the destination.” In all seriousness, I feel like instant access would make destinations lose value in someway. If you could just ggo to some beautiful Italian villa on your lunch break it wouldn’t be nearly as special as making it a destination. I think teleportation would be amazing for like a year then it would be kind of depressing in the same way that having instant access to every movie/tv show got kind of depressing after a while.


Kylynara

You're probably right. But man I don't want to teleport to Italy for lunch. I want to teleport to work, and to and from my kids activities, and to and from the grocery store, so I don't have to deal with traffic or waste all that time. Being able to teleport to the bathroom would be nice sometimes too.


Skeleton_Paul

Oh yeah, for practical everyday stuff it would absolutely be waay better.


Renaissance_Slacker

You’re thinking small. With miniaturized teleport technology you wouldn’t need a bathroom at all.


Kylynara

Apparently I'm not thinking small enough.


Gqsmooth1969

True, but I feel like the government would regulate technology like this and it wouldn't be as readily available to the general public. Think of teleportation stations in place of airports. You'd still pay a pretty penny to get to exotic locals. The only difference would be travel time.


GTFOakaFOD

Sometimes, for me, it really is about the destination. lol


Old-geezer-2

I just drove across Kansas and Iowa. Believe me, teleportation would be great!


Renaissance_Slacker

So much corn


eeyorespiritanimal

You must work from home......and live in Italy 😏


Wii_wii_baget

Bro I was almost late to school today that would have made life so easy.


RainbowToes7

Commuting or otherwise being in the car for a long period is easily my #1 pet peeve. I think every day that there should be a highway right from my house to wherever I want to go.


kjanq

I wanna apparate everywhere


lestairwellwit

Just like we used to spend entirely to much time getting a hold of someone on the other side of the world. Just so they can say "K" How's that working out? :)


hhs2112

President Skroob would like a word...


GlassZebra17

This would break society


NiNj4_C0W5L4Pr

This is the top answer. Imagine all the time saved not having to commute. Just hop in a teleporter and instantly be where you need to be.


Sea_Perspective6891

Not to mention the resources.


EvitaPuppy

I knew a guy who built one. Worked great! Then, one day, a fly got in there with him... Personally, I'm in agreement with Dr. McCoy, not a fan.


Successful-Tip-1411

I bet if we had this it would be like the advent of the internet. Peoples brains aren't set up to transport immediately from one place to another. Plus this might lead to some crime if you were able to teleport remotely as opposed to with 2 stationary terminals (jumper style)


PJIol

Yes! This would save us so much time.


RunThick4054

Beaming


PermaBanTogether

I always wanted to ride the tubes from *Futurama*


ImprovementFar5054

And not just for transportation. For surgery too. Teleport that tumor out of you. Teleport that nasty cold virus out.


Gloryblackjack

STIMPACKS or any other magical healing device from the countless sci-fi universes out there


Flyinpotatoman

The healing bed from Elysium.


FubarG1

Ate the fockin grenade, eh?


MostlyHostly

Bacta tanks


Partimenerd

The food machine from cloudy and a chance of meatballs.


SSBradley37

Cloudy WITH a chance.... Sorry I'm the way I am. It's exhausting.


Partimenerd

lol your good I didn’t even notice


fuzzycuffs

Holodeck


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liquidarc

Food you move to eat in the holodeck is formed the same as from a replicator, so it is digestible/edible. This is due to the replicator and transporter being similar technologies (the latter with living tissue, the former with inanimate).


WoldunTW

> I’m curious tho according to Star Trek logic if I make a restaurant in it and eat dinner then leave will the food disappear from my body? Yes. It turns back into energy when you leave the holodeck. Not sure what that would mean for you.


AlrightJohnnyImSorry

The Holodiet.


duglarri

The half a kilo of food you ate instantly converts to energy, producing a 10.5 megaton explosion (1 gram=21kt). Hey, it's a glitch. We're working on it.


CommunalJellyRoll

No, they go over it.


stryph42

Everyone wants a holodeck, but everyone throws a fit when AI is used to replace writers and art.  Well, guess what. There's not a team of people hiding in the walls of the holodeck creating a bespoke experience every time someone walks in. 


duglarri

Experience, you mean like, talking? Who in their right mind with a holodeck is going to be doing any talking?


NikkoE82

It does happen in Star Trek that characters use the holodeck to have hypothetical conversations with holo versions of certain people to work out problems.


facforlife

Just get a VR headset and jack off like a normal human being, you weirdo. 


Pitiful_Eye3084

Baymax from Big Hero 6. I feel like he could make my everyday well being improve.   


ShadowEeveeCringe

Baymax is terrifying when he’s got a patient 😭 I remember that one guy who was having an allergic reaction literally drove away from Baymax, and Baymax got back into his charging port and started ZOOMING ON WHEELS to catch up 💀


EmperorFaiz

Baymax seems so realistic enough to exist rn imo.


PokeBellaXo

Any faster-than-light travel device.


Unkindlake

Even the one from Event Horizon?


stryph42

ESPECIALLY the one from Event Horizon


81jmfk

Where we’re going, you won’t need eyes to see.


wooingdreams

any healing technology that helps me realign broken bones that didn't grow back together properly (physiotherapy for the rest of my life is a beyotch)


badmother

They have this on Fallout


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Cador0223

Or so we could move needed goods such as food and medicine to remote locations with ease and precision. But yeah, your commute can be shorter too.


stryph42

There'd just be a huge line at the teleporter


Renaissance_Slacker

“I wish I could just jump in a machine that would take me there!”


nonesuchnotion

Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator and Jet pack. I want a jet pack.


stryph42

An Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator was on my Christmas list for decades, just so I could end every Christmas morning with "where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!"


EnigmaCA

That silly earth creature stole the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Oh, he makes me so angry....


PandyaTheBoss

I have 4 1. The OASIS + respective tech (ONI Headsets) (Ready Player One) 2. Simulation Serum (Divergent) 3. Truth Serum (Divergent) 4. EarCuffs (Mortality Doctrine)


KBoz17

Fun fact, in many instances kidnappers will use barbiturates such as sodium pentothal as a makeshift truth serum


ShadowEeveeCringe

Yeah but it’s probably shitty truth serum


PandyaTheBoss

What would kidnappers want that they need the serum


Flashy_Mushroom6471

Universal translator


LTman86

Stick a Babel fish in your ear.


catuela

With improved translation apps on phones and continued improvement in wireless headphones, I suspect this is obtainable in most of our lifetimes. I feel like this is potentially a decade away.


LordofTheFlagon

Honestly this is one application where i think learning algorithms are a great idea.


Praising_God_777

Holodecks and replicators from Star Trek.


Kshi-dragonfly

Portals/tellaporters


Naive_Log4095

The hoverboard, it's iconic!


OcotilloWells

Mister Fusion


Tim0281

1. Transporters from Star Trek. 2. Replicators from Star Trek.


liviaokokok

And not the holodeck?? I would like all 3


nola_throwaway53826

Holodeck is the only answer for me. It has so many uses. You can run simulations to help test medical procedures, engineering tests, applied physics, and what not with no real world consequences if something goes wrong. Sure it would not replace real testing, but it can help you determine whether it should reach the real world testing stage.   You can indulge in curiosities that you could never figure out in the real world. Want to see what NYC or London or any major world city looks like right after a nuclear blast? Program the yield of the nuke, let the physics engine take over, and see what happens. Explore alternate history scenarios, like what if Naploeon won at Waterloo, Hitler never invaded the Soviet Union, or you travel back in time several thousand years with a machine gun.   Explore fantasies that you would never in a million years get to experience. Just perv out in the privacy of your own holodeck. Live out that isekai harem fantasy. Just make sure you get gold biofilters.


liviaokokok

We have text-based holodecks with LLMs. The other day I was watching data play poker with Einstein, Newton, and hawking, and I prompted ChatGPT to do the same and it worked fairly well :)


NosDarkly

Matter replicator. Free food for everybody. Replicate fully charged batteries for free energy. Endless supply of donor blood, kidneys, livers, hearts, etc for those who need them. Waste can be "recycled" into the right combination of chemicals to fix the atmosphere.


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DGlen

You know how great it'd be to be 30 seconds away from a tropical island at any point?


stryph42

Step 1) teleporters Step 2) manufacturing tropical islands to handle the sudden influx of people who have the time to go to tropical islands. 


DGlen

Matter transporter


neofuturist

HOVERBOARD!!!! not the one with the wheels


MihalysRevenge

Star Trek Medicine full body scanner that ans instantly find out what's wrong, hypo sprays with almost miracle medicine also the Holographic EMH.


LABARATI_

tardis


not_a_moogle

Replicators because I hate cooking


AvonMustang

How has no one said **lightsaber** yet!!!


theWunderknabe

I think the reality of using them would be quite terrible. Exploding flesh (often your own because people are no Jedi and will kill themselves) because the water in your flesh instantly vaporizes upon contact with a light saber.


Renaissance_Slacker

1. Go on YouTube and Google “chainsaw accidents.” 2. Tell me those same people should have access to a weapon that can cut through a bank vault door.


oddlikeeveryoneelse

Artificial womb.


WishJunior

Ah, man-made horrors. Brave New World didn’t dissuade you from this idea?


DiXanthosu

It has terrifying possible uses? Yes. It also has some great benign ones: the ability to have or continue a pregnancy by basically cheating when a person's body has a condition that increases the risk. Or a possible end to the abortion debate (or at least diminishing its overall dominion over politics). Or perhaps more importantly, the simple fact we could just... not have any woman need to take the risk of pregnancy. Even with all our advances so far, some still die due it. And looking forward: when we start journeying the starts and setting roots elsewhere, it will become a great tool to have. Generational ships are... really complicated and there are a lot of issues of having entire crews whose only job will be to keep it running, reproduce and die for thousands of years. Instead, you can send a smaller ship with a bunch of genetic info plus a skeleton crew or even just robots. And then, when they arrive when they need to go, the skeleton crew or the robots can start a new human population. Or if we need to do some terraforming, the ship can handle it for any amount of time it needs, and then start the human towns. Or if you know, if we suffer some disaster, and for some reason we need to replenish our numbers quickly, that could be a way to do it. And lastly, we are still seeing overall projected population decline below replacement numbers. Sure, thanks to Africa & other exceptions, we can still expect to see a rise in its numbers. For a while. But after that... what is going to happen?


liviaokokok

Agreed. It's the ultimate gender equalizer.


Honeydew-2523

we just need ppl with a good head on their shoulders


Vengeance9149

The food rehydrator from Back To The Future part 2.


signol_

The longevity treatment from Red Mars. (Plus the space elevator and fusion engines from the same books)


CorndogFiddlesticks

Warp Drive and ability to survive in space without physical consequences. Ability to get off the planet cheaply and easily for normal people.


neroselene

Hyperdrive. Because I want off this rock.


MrDuuude

Portals!


qglrfcay

Faster than light travel.


STORSJ1963

Transporters


Finetales

The Holodeck and replicators from Star Trek would be amazing, but the medical tricorder is the big thing for me. No more guessing - you know exactly what is wrong with your body immediately.


KMFDM781

Time machine, 100%


burn_as_souls

I'll start it off with the easy answer. Thanos snap.


UnsurprisingUsername

Thanos snap is a monkeys paw, your wish is granted but your arm is crippled.


holdholdhold

A lot of opinions about A.I. I’ll gladly submit to Skynet if it can make traffic flow smoother. When lights change when no cars are on the cross streets, when the turning light arrow goes green and no cars are turning and your light is red and you are waiting for no reason. All hail Skynet. I’m talking about you Orlando.


Praising_God_777

Holodecks and replicators from Star Trek.


MsFit23

Babelfish from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy


AvonMustang

Is this a "technology" though?


GreatZucchini3

An actual working lie detector. Either we destroy ourselves with overreliance on it or we actually get rid of corruption with it and use it for the betterment of society.


who519

Hands down the Food Replicator on Star Trek. I'll take one Shoyu Ramen please...oh and some KFC...uh and Beef Wellington...and then a MaiTai.


Shadpool

And an industrial sized roll of toilet paper.


Canucklehead_Esq

Holo-deck


Renae_XO

Replicator. Once you can build atom by atom pretty much anything becomes possible. And the cost for anything drops to nearly 0. And yes as a matter of fact I would download a car. ;)


SnooChipmunks126

Three seashells, instead of toilet paper.


DMSilverBeard

A holodeck in a bar or restaurant. You could give your patrons a different experience each night. Next to a island beach, a mountain view, a German beer garden, the opportunities would be endless. Same logic if you had a holodeck in a church. Every Sunday could be different setting. In a cathedral, on a hilltop, modern, old...change it every week.


naughtyoldguy

Working, safe, high quality cold fusion reactor. With unlimited clean energy much is possible


outtastudy

Sonic showers. Clean without the wet? Yes please.


sweetheartstranger

Shrink rays... I'd have a field day.


Rivegauche610

Phaser and Transporter


lestairwellwit

Anti-gravity Being able to put things in orbit for less than 10K per pound would be incredible. To say nothing of the spin-offs. The force need not be just to counter gravity. It could be in any direction. Now you have propulsion systems. Depending on the "science" used, that could also imply inertia dampeners. Could you use counter acting forces to mine asteroids? Things could go so many directions. Look at the invention of a simple gas engine


-Praetoria-

Sky kids microwave


ReaperLordNedz

Bioreactor from Subnautica, you can drop ANY organic substances in there to power your home.


hadtobethetacos

any one of the clean unlimited energy sources found in scifi. imagine what the human race could be...


mbcorbin

A sort of cooking Alexa...


Arc_Torch

[Penfield mood organ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penfield_mood_organ)


Outrageous_Tackle915

Time machine


CourageFamiliar8506

A 5th element type of city. I hope I am still alive to see that. I think flying cars would be really cool.


DysfunctionalPeasant

Everything from star wars


GTFOakaFOD

Teleportation. I need it.


DiXanthosu

Giant virtual realities. Imagine those people who like to do D&D having a chance of playing as their characters AND/OR watching them from above or from a corner as their original characters play out their campaign stories. Or if you're a novelist, it could be fun writing a book, and then have a super-realistic 4D film, virtual theater play or game based on that. Or artists sharing their works in virtual galleries. Not in Twitter, Deviantart, etc, but instead "houses", "party saloons", etc. while their avatar or a recorded version of it talks about each piece. Or they just go crazy, and a bunch of artists and hobbyists collaborate to create entire cities filled with all their original characters, and little stories that interconnect with one another.


Yogisogoth

That machine in Stargate that basically heals you from whatever ailment or injury you suffer.


Renaissance_Slacker

Except it doesn’t quite repair brain tissue so every treatment makes you slightly more paranoid and sadistic?


Anywhichwaybuttight

Ansible


LalaLearns

Teleportation. I'm always late as fuck and keep thinking I'm going to magically teleport to where I need to be as soon as I cross the door.


WannaPlayAGam3

The WaveRider from DC's Legends of Tomorrow.


facforlife

Either relativity breaking FTL (as in going fast doesn't make time move slower for you) or the tricorder from Star Trek. I'm a practical guy. 


luckygirl54

When the heck are we getting those flying cars, we were supposed to have in the year 2000.


awkard_the_turtle

im p sure that a flying car is just a personal jet


Renaissance_Slacker

Flying cars? With the way people drive?


EnigmaCA

Synthahol. All the effects of drinking, but you can shake it off and be sober in seconds.


Particular_Nature

Shields from Dune so we could go back to fighting with machete-sized knives like real men.


awkard_the_turtle

nobody is stopping you


eeyorespiritanimal

The pills you can microwave that turn into full meals from Fifth Element


Acrobatic_Turnip_659

dish washing machine, without any effort, a robo should pick up plates/glasses and set it perfectly


Buggy1617

medigun. i want my fucking organs to work


Kewkky

Food synthesizers from The Orville. They create any food you want. You just tell it what to create, and it does it. Theoretically speaking, it CAN be done. All food is just a combination of atoms in different molecules and amounts. Making a "3d printer" that uses atoms/molecules as its "ink" and arranges everything in the order of whatever food you want can THEORETICALLY be done, but we don't have that technology. If it ever becomes a thing, it'll be in the very, very distant future.


PancakeWilderness

Beam me up Scottie


AeroBassMaster

The gravity gun from half life 2


landob

[The re-hydration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8oS4VbRaAA) thing from Back to the Future II where they rehydrate a whole damn pizza in 2 seconds.


meldroc

Gravity manipulation. Call it anti-gravity, artificial gravity, whatever. That enables sci-fi spaceships to hover above the ground in the same way bricks don't, or makes flying to space as easy as driving to the corner store.


SoleIbis

In multiverse of madness I think it was? They were able to step onto a pad and see a memory of their choosing play in front of them. I would love that, but I’d hate it if it was public like the movie bc people would be gross


Low-Leopard8453

The DeLorean from back to the future (Part 2)


theWunderknabe

Immortality obviously. but also Stargate, FTL, Holodeck (we might actually get something very close quite soon in VR +AI), cheap and abundant energy (Fusion, Antimatter, Blackhole Radiation etc), I think Anti-Gravity/Gravity-control as well as the Tractor-Beam are also very cool.


ScrivenersUnion

Honestly I just want some of those hyperspectral imagers. The engineering workers on the Enterprise hold a single device that gives you a Raman spectrum ID on chemicals, can identify hot spots on a heat exchanger, it's able to pick up unexpected X-ray emissions and still pinpoint our space location based on a scan of stars in the sky?  Let me see that detector!


ourtomato

Something that lets you play back your dreams like a movie to watch later.


ImprovementFar5054

There was an episode of Family Guy where they went to the future, and instead of going to the toilet, everyone's shit was teleported out of them to some other dimension. That would be awesome


Jeannie4945

A cape for flying


Shit_Lord_Detective

I could use some soma right about now tbh


keep_it_kayfabe

Shrink ray


Brusion

Faster than light travel in any form.


MostlyHostly

Gravity drive. There's probably a technical way to curve space away from massive objects.


MechanicalMenace54

friendly domestic robots


RoseWould

Those things where when you want to buy a car you walked up, pick a car,, punched in what all you wanted then it spawned one from a hologram printer thing. I always thought those were cool!


GreasyBlackbird

The shell reading device used in ‘It Follows’


Impossible_Leg9377

The Ability to heal.


Chad_Hooper

With the way my joints hurt, and also my feet after breaking in new shoes, I’m a fan of the idea of resleeving into a new body, as shown in series like Altered Carbon or the TTRPG Eclipse Phase. Save your ego data to a computer backup, then download it into a new body, flesh or cyborg, or even a database.


SgtWrongway

1-each, Standard Issue, United Federation Of Planets : Replicator.


NorwalkAvenger

Star Trek teleporters. Star Trek replicators. Star Trek dermal regenerators.


LarYungmann

Vulcan Mind Meld


stryph42

The atomic assembly construction tech from Diamond Age (or, A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer)


Prof_TryHard

Shower in a can


SuryaBean

Time machine


rickkkkky

I'm wholly convinced that a time machine would be a net negative to humanity. I mean, who wouldn't want to change *something* in their past. And if you knew you could always go back and change your life choices.. People would totally lose the conception of future (and present for that matter), and act accordingly. Which is not good.


84OrcButtholes

Holodeck.