Edit: This only refers to costs (paid by the manufacturers), not fees (paid for by the buyers).
“If I make something up, I can make up whatever I want about it.”
Yup.
Not necessarily. Still takes energy to move it. Depending on the energy required, could still have a cost
The cost will be comparatively less, and negligible given that digital goods don’t have “energy” fees (and never had, btw)
Why?
We traded energy cost for time when we stopped walking, and replaced it with an animal and a cart, and again with cars, and airplanes. We save time, but the energy input is greater.
Who’s to say that teleportation wouldn’t be a trade off between 5x the energy to take a jet, but instantaneous?
Digital goods aren’t physical; teleportation is physical.
This really depends.
Teleportation consists of three main phases:
- scanning/deconstruction
- sending
- reconstruction
If the deconstruction and/or reconstruction phases cost a ton of energy, it doesn’t matter if the sending phase has a high energy bill.
But since you have transmit data on each atom, you will have huge amounts of data to send.
For example, 1kg of carbon has about 5*10^25 atoms. Humans aren’t made entirely of carbon, but the rough order of magnitude will be similar. Let’s go with a 70kg human and we end up with roughly 10^27 atoms.
Let’s say we have good compression techniques and a single byte is enough to store all data of one atom. That means, we need to send about 10^28 bits of data.
In September 2023 the total bandwith of the global internet was about 1.2 Pbps, or 10^15 bits per second.
So to transmit a single human being with the speed of the entire global internet combined it would take 10^13 seconds or about 300 000 years. I think that kind of data transmission could cost a little bit of money.
Compare that to the cost of shipping 70kg of human being anywhere on the planet. By plane, it will cost in the order of a few thousand Euros and it will take one day, two at most, not 300 000 years.
That’s so far from true. It’ll be cost of electricity. Heat. Distance shipped. They’ll probably tack on some country border crossing fee. They’ll find ways to make it more expensive simply because it’s an earth shattering technology.
I see you are missing the the ever present influence of corporate greed.
Pay us $30 to get the package to your customer in 3 days, or $150 to get it there in the next hour. Why $150? because people will pay it.
With the greed of corporations you pay the premium tier for teleportation and low cost shipping to wait a few days.
Once teleportation exist, so do replicators and all costs apart from energy costs disappear.
Internet is technically teleportation (of data) and I am not seeing replicators anywhere.
With the interpretation of the internet being teleportation of data, your Webbrowser becomes a replicator of data, as e.g. the video that you are streaming from YouTube is merely being copied from its servers, but not deleted from its source.
In general computers are just copying data, i.e. replicating data.
it will probably require lots of tokens though
