Comment on Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented.

wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Internet is technically teleportation (of data) and I am not seeing replicators anywhere.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Data is copied 100s of times just from a server to your device.

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  • mxeff@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • loldog191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      wait so if data is like dna, does that make computers like plants with their pollen being data packets like memes, articles, and videos… and we’re the pollinators?

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  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah, yes. That’s why when you upload a photo to facebook, only one friend gets to download it before you have to re-upload it for the next person.

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