Abstract
It is difficult to refute the proposition that revolutions in transport technologies
have far-reaching effects on society: the domestication of the horse caused no
less upheaval than the take-off of the first long-haul jet aircraft. But what might
lie in the future as transportation achieves new degrees of instantaneity and
convenience? Science fiction (SF) is uniquely enabled to hypothesize about the
impacts of such imagined technologies, and Harry Harrison is just one of many
authors to examine the science fictional trope of the Matter Transmitter – ‘MT’ as
he dubbed it, deriving the abbreviation in the same fashion that ‘TV’ comes from
television (Harrison 1973: x).
have far-reaching effects on society: the domestication of the horse caused no
less upheaval than the take-off of the first long-haul jet aircraft. But what might
lie in the future as transportation achieves new degrees of instantaneity and
convenience? Science fiction (SF) is uniquely enabled to hypothesize about the
impacts of such imagined technologies, and Harry Harrison is just one of many
authors to examine the science fictional trope of the Matter Transmitter – ‘MT’ as
he dubbed it, deriving the abbreviation in the same fashion that ‘TV’ comes from
television (Harrison 1973: x).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Travel and Imagination |
| Editors | Emma Waterton, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff |
| Place of Publication | London, United Kingdom |
| Publisher | Routledge, Taylor and Francis |
| Chapter | 11 |
| Pages | 165-180 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781472410252 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2014 |