This wont happen in isolation but in the context of mushrooming technology developments.

Progressive techniques to quantum levels should enable whole people to be scanned, plotting their body’s minute internal trajectories, teleporting without loss of consciousness as in Star Trek.

Such combined advances may guarantee immortality as errors, as aging, are reversed by teleportation-like ‘baths’.

1. Idea.
2. Complex day dreams.
3. Engineering.

It might be interesting to run a short survey to know who has ever heard about the concept of singularity? I have done an informal and non scientific test around my friends of the Data processing community , people who should at least have a vague idea on this subject. I have not found a single one capable to give a proper answer to the question: “Have you heard about the singularity point in data processing? And if yes, could you summarize what it is, just in a few sentences.

I should have recorded some of the ludicrous answers I received, just to show how far from the concept of singularity these answers were, remembering that I asked data processing specialists.. Imagin asking the question in the general public?

I agree with the comment made by nfordkrz on October 5, 2012
Why do we invest more on NFL games broadcasting than on such advanced research as international quantum teleportation
Perhaps the answer is to be found in antique litterature: to make populations happy and stable, gives them: “Panem and Circences” “Bread and Games”
The Roman empire, fell in large part, because of this short term requirement for immediate satistafction, at all levels of the Roman society. As far as I can see, today’s politicians and sociologists tend to act as the Roman empire high class, just trying to calm down populations by satisfying the most primitives and immediate pleasurable expectations of these populations., for example in FRance making proposals to reduce oil and Gaz prices at a time when oil scarcity is already becoming apparent, and air polution data is more and more allarming.
Do you think that a presidential canditade proposing to progresively hike the price of gas in view of making a smooth transition towards a necessarily scarcer and expensive oil production, would have the slightest chance to be elected?

One basic solution to all that is investing a lot more on educatoin, but that again will not be providing “immediate and personnal satisfaction, hence won’t be very “popular”

Yet how can “international quantum teleportation ” be explained in a way to create massive enthusiasm, somewhat like what happened with the APOLLO program. leading to more inotations in our day to day lives than any previous human endeavour.