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- And if you enjoyed that, you'll probably also enjoy: Think Like a Dinosaur
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13582015-think-like-a-di...
- Did you by chance read the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur" or see the episode of The Outer Limits based off it?
It presents this exact same dilemma. Up until that point I never really considered the potential ethical ramifications of teleportation.
- Thank you, and the equation was balanced.
Think like a Dinosaur, James Patrick Kelly
- For me the archetypal story of the genre is Think Like a Dinosaur:
The story postulates a transportation device (supervised by a dinosaur-like race of aliens) which can transmit an exact copy of a person's body to distant planets. The original body is disintegrated once reception at the destination is confirmed. In the story a woman is teleported to an alien planet, but the original is not disintegrated because reception cannot be confirmed at the time. Reception is later confirmed, and the original, not surprisingly, declines to "balance the equation" by re-entering the scanning and disintegrating device. This creates an ethical quandary which is viewed quite differently by the cold-blooded aliens who provided the teleportation technology, and their warm-blooded human associates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
Transmission protocol errors, eh.
- Or perhaps the same idea was in the air in the same sense that Think Like a Dinosaur and The Prestige had the same plot twist?
- It's "Think Like a Dinosaur", based on the short story by James Patrick Kelly [0]. It deals more or less with the transporer issue described in the linked article.
I remembet having read it when it was first published in Asimov's SF magazine. God I'm old.
