It’s 2045 and we’ve invented teleportation. It’s like google street view everywhere and you can browse a place before hitting go.
You can port anywhere in the world with as much as you can carry like food water surfboards etc.
The teleportation has a cooldown of 2 hours.
It’s cheap and accessible to mostly anyone. There are no ill effects to teleporting.
What happens to surf travel?
I assume every surfer has at some stage spent an hour on google maps perusing the endless setups scattered around the world that on their day are likely spinning out perfect empty sets all day long. But due to their remoteness have never even been visited.
In the hypothetical above. What happens? Are there 20,000 people at snapper on a cyclone swell? Does your local b grade wave get less crowded as the masses can go anywhere?
I envision a 10-15 year renaissance period of surf travel as previously un reachable waves are discovered but slowly as each one gets blown out the premier spots become increasingly crowded as they are now effortless to get to for anyone. However getting a nice surf to yourself becomes pretty easy if your happy to sacrifice quality.
It’s 2045 and we’ve invented teleportation. It’s like google street view everywhere and you can browse a place before hitting go.
You can port anywhere in the world with as much as you can carry like food water surfboards etc.
The teleportation has a cooldown of 2 hours.
It’s cheap and accessible to mostly anyone. There are no ill effects to teleporting.
What happens to surf travel?
I assume every surfer has at some stage spent an hour on google maps perusing the endless setups scattered around the world that on their day are likely spinning out perfect empty sets all day long. But due to their remoteness have never even been visited.
In the hypothetical above. What happens? Are there 20,000 people at snapper on a cyclone swell? Does your local b grade wave get less crowded as the masses can go anywhere?
I envision a 10-15 year renaissance period of surf travel as previously un reachable waves are discovered but slowly as each one gets blown out the premier spots become increasingly crowded as they are now effortless to get to for anyone. However getting a nice surf to yourself becomes pretty easy if your happy to sacrifice quality.