Scenario 1: A Fly in the Ointment
The eminent physicist Dr. Steph Grundle was about to unleash a technological revolution. His masterpiece, a human teleportation system, would completely remake the transportation, shipping, telecommunication, and computer industries overnight. Steph was on the verge of completing his life's work with a maiden voyage across his laboratory. His invention could transfer a human being from one of his prototype telepods to the other in mere seconds. The telepods transferred all data describing the teleported person across a TCP/IP network using Steph's new Human TeleporTation Protocol (which he called “HTTP” for short). “Talk about a killer app!” shouted an excited Steph, unaware of the irony of his own statement. ...
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