Real life star trek in the making

[geoschmo]

Don't get me wrong, I agree. It's a very exciting prospect.

Actually it might end up in technologies not to far from the replicators on trek. If an object can be deconstructed and copied a distance away in a "transporter", why couldn't that object be deconstructed and recorded, and reconstructed later as many times as wanted. At the atomic level. It's quite mindboggeling to think about. It would radically alter our perceptions of value of materials that's for sure. The Alchemists were not off by much. You can't make gold from lead, but you can make it from the atoms that make up everything around us, including lead.

Geoschmo