In the year 2147, Joel Byram works at training artificial intelligence to be more human. His wife is a researcher for the corporation that has developed teleportation (think "Beam me up" on Star Trek). Everything about life in the 22nd century has been altered by genetic engineering and nanotechnology right down to the mosquitoes which now consume air pollution instead of blood. The secretive and somewhat sinister teleportation company is opposed by a fanatical religious group who sees teleporting as a corruption of the body. When a planned trip to Costa Rica for Joel and his wife is disrupted by a terrorist attack, the result is the creation of two Joels during the transporting process. It is then that the "dirty secret" about the transporting process comes out as the corporation attempts to eliminate the Joel in New York while the Joel in Costa Rica has no idea what has happened. It's an interesting premise that will give you second thoughts about how nice it would be to instantly travel from place to place.
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