The Commute From Hell

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Getting from one place to another is hard. What if we could just teleport? From the physics of how this would work (it wouldn’t) to the ripple effects it might have on politics, urban development, and tourism, this episode is all about what would happen if we could zip instantly from one place to another. Guests Matt Lubchansky, comic artist and associate editor at The Nib Zeeya Merali, physicist at the Foundational Questions Institute, author of A Big Bang in a Little Room, cohost of the FQXi Podcast Peter Norton, historian at the University of Virginia, author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Paper from the advertisement: Time to End the Use of Genetic Test Results in Life Insurance Underwriting) → → → Sources and more links available here ← ← ← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The teleportation attendant from the future was played by Tamara Krinsky. Tamara is the host of the science & technology show TOMORROW'S WORLD TODAY, which you can watch on Amazon, right now. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool. And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! Head to www.flashforwardpod.com/support for more about how to give. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to iTunes and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help. That’s all for this future, come back next time and we’ll travel to a new one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host. Flash forward is a show about the future.
0:15.0	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:21.0	We always start with a little field trip to the future to check out
0:24.8	what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that
0:29.8	world that we just heard might really go down.
0:33.0	Got it? Great.
0:35.0	This episode we're starting in the boarding area, welcome to Port 334 from Miami to Hong Kong. Please remember to have your
0:56.0	passports ready for inspection along with your boarding pass as you enter the gateway.
1:01.0	We'll begin the port process in about 10 minutes.
1:03.2	Good afternoon passengers. This is the pre-boarding announcement for Port 334 to Hong Kong. We are now inviting
1:16.1	those passengers with small children and any passengers requiring special assistance to begin
1:21.2	boarding at this time.
1:23.0	Please have your boarding pass and identification ready.
1:26.0	Please remember that children over the age of five must go through the port by themselves.
1:31.0	Children under the age of five can port with a parent.
1:39.8	Good afternoon, sir.
1:41.1	Ticket please.
1:42.4	Thank you. Welcome, Mr. Ticket, please. Thank you.
1:43.0	Welcome, Mr. Nesmith.
1:45.0	Is this your first time porting?
1:47.0	Is that obvious?
1:51.0	It's normal to be nervous.
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