I suppose that depends on how resource intensive it is and how long it takes.
If you have to go to the teleporter building and wait in a long line, it’ll be more like “oops I left <thing> at home.”
If teleportation is basically free and you carry the device on you, it’ll be only slightly worse than walking.
The real bad time is if teleporting is portable and easy to do, but expensive. Then we’ll really get ourselves in trouble.
I thought of it as a personal power that you can do at will.
That one would be better for us, I think, because we could always pop home to grab anything we forget.
I’d never arrive anywhere on time though
Absolutely
“How can I ever be late when I can be anywhere instantly?!”
Proceed through montage of walking into everything 5 minutes late because instant teleportation definitely means I DON’T watch the clock and hyperfocus/get distracted harder
jumper (the books)
I’d be so overwhelmed and I’d do it at moments I really shouldn’t because I’ll loose control of impulses.
Blink, with infinite range and accuracy, is what I thought of.
… There is only a single electron in the entire universe, and it is an electron with ADHD.
Eh, instant teleportation beats driving somewhere and then having the same thing happen and having to drive back home before remembering. heh
I had the worst schedule one year. 3 12s for two different companies. Alternating each job each day of the week. It was the worst. I drove to the wrong job on a few days. Fortunately they were understanding and I could just call and they’d let me make up the day whenever. But like damn. I have no idea why I did that to myself if I had asked I could have done the 3 days in a row at each job. If I recall, one job was absolutely awful but the other job at least let you play music you streamed from the internet in your cube and as a musician I can only take so much silence.
Waking up from driving autopilot/transportation psychosis/whatever the hell you want to call it 80 miles away from where you think you’re supposed to be is fuuuuun
Ah, geez. I never had that, but in the early 90s when my family moved, I ended up getting jobs at McDonald’s and Domino’s Pizza. I opened the grill at McD so was up at 4am for a 5am arrival. Worked until like 1pm-2pm, go home, grab a nap, be at Domino’s at usually 4:30pm and work until 2am-3am. Although that was usually only a couple of nights per week. I don’t remember my exact days off from each, but Domino’s was centered around Thu-Fri-Sat and McD was centered around Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu I think. I know I had 4-5 days at Domino’s, but I don’t remember now if it was Wed or Sun or both or what. Been too long.
So a couple of days per week I got no sleep, then caught up other days. lol. And that was $4.25/hr. heh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_Destination
Humans and teleporting have a lot of difficult social problems.
Sick I’ll add it to my reading list
Easily one of my favorite sci fi books of all time, especially from the era.
I would love this. Would I be constantly teleporting? Yes. But it would remove the delay between starting an action and getting there
I’d be everywhere, and it would be glorious
Don’t need to be able to teleport to have that issue. Stairs also work flawlessly.
me in my kitchen every single day
If I could teleport I would get so fat so fast.
