Edit: This only refers to costs (paid by the manufacturers), not fees (paid for by the buyers).

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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.