Flash Forward

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.GuestsMatt Lubchansky, comic artist and associate editor at The NibZeeya Merali, physicist at the Foundational Questions Institute, author of A Big Bang in a Little Room, cohost of the FQXi PodcastPeter 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