Some things are rooted in sci-fi culture, you see them popping up in different movies or books. One of these things is matter transfer. We know it from Star Trek (Beam me up Scotty!), The Fly and Stargate. What if it wasn’t science fiction, what if within 10 years this will be a normal thing, just like driving a car? Perhaps not used for people transport immediately, but for sure the transportation of materials would be revolutionized. So take 2019, ten years from now, a year where this technology is becoming more and more mature and powerful. So how does it work? Not going into the intricacies we just assume it works by using a device which scans the material, changing a certain ‘quantum’ property after which the material escapes our know dimensions. A linked system of the aforementioned devices is able to rematerialize the material within one of the other devices. The first device will send specific information about the material (f.e. its size) to the other device. You can also store material using the device so it won’t take up any space. And some scientists are even suggesting that material can be created from scratch using this technology. People afraid of this new technology predict it can go terribly wrong if (they say ‘when’) this creation of matter out of nothing forms a chain reaction in which the whole universe would be clogged by this new matter. Putting all the fears of this new technology aside, most people are very happy with the prospects of ‘beaming’ as it is called in popular culture. Of course no human being has been beamed yet – officially. The technology was developed at MIT and is now used by the military, the oil & gas and mining industries and the space industry. They have their own private Material Transfer Facilities (MTFs) whereas many countries have a public MTF used by small companies and individuals as an alternative for mailing large packages. The technology is closed source and all the private MTFs lend the material transfer devices from one company, MaTrans Inc, a company started by the MIT developers of the technology. The public MTFs are managed by a subsidiary of the United Nations which hires the devices from MaTrans Inc.
Sounding like science fiction? Just imagine Jules Verne visiting our present, his future. He would be completely flabbergasted. Is it possible we would be having this experience too if we were able to skip 10 years?
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