Insta transportation zapped at birth!

If you are clueless about the breakthrough made in teleportation technology - transfer of matter from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them - by a group of physicists in Madurai, that's understandable. Big Biz lobbies have quickly (though not instantly) got authorities to shut down operations, as well as black out news of the stunning breakthrough. Quick-commerce companies, whose entire business model rests on delivering toothpaste in 10 mins, now face the existential horror of customers teleporting tubes directly from factories. Airlines are terrified that their tradition of delayed flights, soggy sandwiches and matchbox leg space will be rendered obsolete by a single zap.

The Confederation of Commerce Luddites (CCL) has already issued a statement: 'Teleportation undermines millions of jobs and crushes the very backbone of enterprise: waiting.' Without 'durationality' - a word CCL coined to make its plea more 'pleable' - society risks collapsing into the morass of instant gratification, ruining capitalism in the process. IPO valuations wobbled - but recovered after the blackout turned real news fake. Madurai's breakthrough may have been strangled by Big Business. But you can't delay the future forever. Remember, vimanas of ancient India could not be suppressed. The Wright Brothers ultimately recovered that tech.