Perhaps the author can also address how our transportation needs can be better solved with teleportation, rather than airplanes, railways, busses, ships, cars,

Perhaps the author can also address how our transportation needs can be better solved with teleportation, rather than airplanes, railways, busses, ships, cars, and bikes we have now. I have a feeling that people who look too much to sci-fiction in describing the future are not that much different than people who read apocalyptic religious writings and try to make real world immediate predictions from them.