Wired calls him "The Linus Torvalds of Antigravity", but NASA still won't return his calls. Since the birth of American Antigravity in 2002, Tim has been featured on a multitude of television networks, such as Nippon TV and the BBC, as well as extensively covered in print by sources as diverse as Wired Magazine and Jane's Defense Weekly. Wormholes offer an opportunity to connect distant points in space, bypassing the need for FTL propulsion. Assuming that anticipated advances in science give us the ability to generate and control wormholes, this article explores the likely path of development for this speculative technology, presenting avenues for major advances from communications to even interstellar colonization...
Arthur C. Clarke addressed this topic in his science-fiction classic, "The Light of Other Days". Like Clarke, I imagine that this technology would start small, mostly due to the power-limitations involved with stabilizing a quantum-wormhole.
The initial application would most likely be point-to-point communications, but as technology progresses over time, I imagine that it might eventually grow together with Nanotechnology to allow us to colonize other worlds by sending Nanobots with pre-programmed construction plans through a hole in space-time only a few atom's-width across.
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PDF Link: Engineering Wormholes: A Speculative Approach to Technology Development
Related: The Light of Other Days, Kurzweil's "Law of Accelerating Returns", Nanotech Utility-Fog, Michael Crichton's "Timeline"