"The Chair" A mild-mannered scientist just wanted to put a chair in the teleporter so he could sit while he was teleporting.
The Replicator, as befits its name, is also capable of reverse engineering by digitally scanning an object placed inside it to produce the data needed to build an exact replica.The Replicator is as near as current technology can get to the teleporter of science fiction.
A quantum teleporter for a whole person is unlikely to materialise.
"If one day we invent the teleporter, the headlines would read: 'Microsoft copies again'," he jokes, referring to the "beam-me-up" device in "Star Trek" (of which he, like so many computer professionals, is an ardent fan).
Unless someone invents a teleporter or matter duplicator, rendering much of the economics of scarcity obsolete, the physical economy will always lag behind the flow of information.Special report How about now?
His ambition is to build a teleporter that can carry objects into new dimensions.
