Teleology
We have the telephone, and we have television, so teleporting seems the next step.
But before we go teleporting we might wonder how the telephone is transforming us, and how the television is transforming us.
And for the intellectuals amongst us we might wonder about teleology.
Teleology is a direction, a movement from a beginning, a middle, to an end. But applying teleology to the phone and the TV is like calling a car a horseless carriage. In fact the phone and the TV have no teleology, everything is coterminus. For instance, we are coterminus on different parts of the Earth on Typology Central.
The habit of thought called teleology is function of the book which has, as part of its nature, a beginning, a middle, and an end, so books are teleological. So we look at the new electronic media through the eyes of a literate individual, a teleological individual. So we apply tele- to the electric media in the same way we called a car a horseless carriage.
We drive forward looking in the rear vision mirror at the book, while the electric media is rushing towards us through the windscreen.