SFS1 - Science Fiction Short Stories by Krishna kumar Mani Page A

auditoriums. One was in New York and
one was in San Francisco. Yes, I am going to
have my demonstration in two places that are
on two different sides of the North American
continent. At first, no one believed me. When I
took out ads in the newspaper, people finally
started
listening.
My
boss
never
read
the
newspaper so I wasn't afraid he'd catch on. I've
been contacted by some nut jobs, but for every
one of those, I've had ten venture capitalists,
reporters,
industrial
leaders
and
even
government authorities who want to get their
hands on this new technology. I've told them
all the same thing: wait for the demo.
    Now I'm on stage in New York, behind me
there is a teleportation machine and on the
other side of the stage there are two screens.
One shows the San Francisco stage, and the
other
shows
its
audience.
The
same setup
exists in San Francisco, except of course, their
screens
show
the
New
York
stage
and
audience. Along with this, everything is being
live streamed to the internet. .
    I show my hand to audience and start to
talk. “Science fiction concept becomes reality.
This
is
my
invention,
the
teleportation
machine!”
    The audience looks
at
the teleportation
machine. It looks like a glass wardrobe with
two cables connected into the back of it. I begin
to
explain
what
teleportation
is
to
the
audience, but most of them are familiar with
the concept.
    “Of course you already know what
teleportation is!” I say. “Well then, let's
proceed to the demonstration.
I'll be going to
San Francisco by teleportation, please watch
me arrive on the screen.”
    Once again I wave to the audience and enter
into the New York teleportation machine and
exit in San Francisco in a fraction of second. I
welcome the San Francisco audience and am
met with a resounding cheer. The New York
audience is clapping from there as well. Some
are taking out their phones and calling people,
others are hurriedly talking to the audience
members next to them.
    To impress the both audiences I tell them
from San Francisco stage: “I left my water
bottle in New
York,
I'll
be
back
in just
a
second.”
    I interrupt my speech and enter into the San
Francisco teleportation device and exit in New
York after I take the water bottle, I see the San
Francisco audience by screen and smile. Once
again I go back to San Francisco.
    I start my speech. “You can’t believe this
right?”
Most of the people clap, a few members of
press replied.
“Yes. We're not going to believe it unless we
can see it for
ourselves.
Maybe it's just an
elaborate magic trick. You have one twin here,
one twin there. Let us prove it for ourselves.”
I'm
not
shocked
by
the
reply.
Some
Hollywood movies have shown how this trick
would work with twins.
“Alright then! Any one of you, please come
with me to New York! I will teleport you there
and get you back here safely. No transport
charges! Choose a representative to go, I'll be
waiting.”
After some discussion, they decided to send
the CNN reporter. First I sent him by pressing
the destination terminal
as
T01 using
the
keyboard. The audience and myself see him
appear on the screen in New York When he got
there, he looked out into the audience and
began to talk with them. He asked them if he
was really in New York, took some photos and
then
walked
outside
the auditorium.
After
that, we couldn't see him any longer on the
screen.
After a few minutes, one of the reporters
suddenly came to the stage and told me that
the CNN reporter was on video call on his
iPad. We hooked it up so that we could show it
on the screen.
“I went outside and checked to make sure
that I was in New York,” he began. “I also I
checked the current location in Google maps
and saw that the city it said I was in was New
York. But I can’t believe this, seems to be a
dream.”
The audience clapped, they still could not
believe what is happening.
“Alright, now I will go to New York and
send a different reporter from there