Travel by Wire

A breakthrough in transportation promises to erase distance, delay, and inconvenience with the push of a button. People step into a transmitter in one city and emerge moments later in another, intact, conscious, and amazed. Governments celebrate it. Businesses depend on it. Millions embrace it without hesitation. Travel by wire becomes so normal that no one pauses to ask what might go wrong.

The story unfolds through the voice of one of the engineers who helped make it possible. His account ...