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Travel Tech: Let Big Brother Do the Driving

Since we suffer from an abnormal amount of wanderlust--and find guilty pleasure in old sci-fi shows--we always fantasize about the day when planning our travel consists of uttering the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty."

No, we're not announcing the invention of teleportation. (Damn!) But a group of New Zealand-based scientists explained to The Observer in London that global positioning and nanotechnology will continue to ease the movement of humans throughout the world. The use of computer chips and GPS could help eliminate the congestion of global transport, they say.

They've even developed a system that monitors crowd movement which in turn can be used to remotely direct planes and ships. Sure, it's kind of creepy to be virtually followed. But if letting Big Brother do the driving gets our flight out of JFK on time for a change, track away.

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