The article refers to a combination of events that together would lead to the "perfect storm" that will collapse the financial market. The article hinges upon oil being a finite resourse which is due to run out causing an escalation in prices and consequently a complete shut down of international trade.... Yasis, how long term will that be? 50 years? 100 years? And by then we should be teleporting goods and people anyway. Small issue though - The reassembled human might be considered a different sentience with the same memories as the original, while the original human would have ceased to exist. Furthermore, if several copies were constructed using merely descriptive data, but not matter, transmitted from the origin and new matter already at the destination point, each would consider itself to be the true continuation of the original; moreover, because each copy constructed via this data-only method would be made of new matter that already existed at the destination, there would be no way, even in principle, of distinguishing the original from the copies. Many of the relevant questions are shared with the concept of mind transfer.... I just thought of that right now... OKAY its wikipedia!
