How much Flatter can it Get?

The question was asked to Thomas Friedman in a recent televised interview.What struck the cord was that this question has been lingering around in my head for quite some time.

Recently cisco announced a cutting edge technology that lets us virtually see a person even though he /she is miles or 7 seas away. I try bring to fore some wildly imaginative ideas which might just become a reality in coming century.

Let me begin with a Advertisement of a culinary giant where the protagonist in the AD opens a micro oven and gets the food served from a chief in a restaurant located in Italy.Sounds interesting but how can such a thing happen.Let me put forth an idea which would incite some activity in your grey cells.

The highest standard of measurement in a time /distant travel is light years.Which means that for us to have an object available to us from Italy the object would have to travel at the speed of light.But theory of relativity says that any object travelling at the speed of light would transform into energy i.e the object ceases to exist.That means that if an object does travel at the speed of light all we have is just energy,but i say we at least have some thing.I am sure every energy that gets generated by some form has certain set of characteristics.My guess if one is able to reverse engineer the entire energy into a the object ,the AD shown in the TV could actually become a reality.

Another interesting idea promoted by movies is that of person entering a door from one place
and as soon as he shuts the door he is into an all new place.I am sure Airline companies might be at great loss if such a thing happens.

So imagine you wake up in Switzerland,you walk or jog in the scenic alps,with an English breakfast in London and you go off to work in Manhattan,you are off to Germany of Binge drinking in the evening and in Varanasi at night for a spiritual healing all in single day.

That's the level of Flatting i can fathom.Let me know how flatter do you think the world can get.