MCU Shower Thought: With Doctor Strange's portals being canon, wouldn't most of Earth's logistical problems be solved?
Recently marathoned the MCU flicks to prep for CA: BNW, and a thought came to me: we have literal portals now. PORTALS. Yet we're still watching Earth deal with the same old problems?
Things to think about: - Instant disaster response. California wildfire? whoosh Here's a portal to the Pacific Ocean. Earthquake in Turkey? Boom, immediate rescue teams and supplies. - World hunger? My guy, we can literally connect farms directly to food-insecure regions. Fresh produce going from field to table in seconds. - Energy distribution? Imagine connecting solar farms in the Sahara directly to New York City. Energy crisis solved (though some engineer's gonna have a hell of a time figuring out how to connect magical portals to the power grid lol) - Healthcare could be completely revolutionized. Need a heart transplant? That organ isn't dying in transit anymore. Got a rare disease? Cool, let's portal in the world's top specialist for a quick consult.
This would obviously be heavily regulated, but entire systems would change. Ned was able to summon the other 2 Peters in NWH, and he’s never had any training. Now that the world knows about teleportation, wouldn’t governments want to dive deeper into this and try to harness/systematize this for the benefit of mankind?
And here's where it gets philosophically interesting - would this actually fix things, or just create new problems? Like, do national borders even matter anymore? How do you stop billionaires from hoarding portal access? Would we end up with some weird sorcerer-dependent society?
What other problems do you think could be solved (or created) by normalized portal usage in the MCU?
Recently marathoned the MCU flicks to prep for CA: BNW, and a thought came to me: we have literal portals now. PORTALS. Yet we're still watching Earth deal with the same old problems?
Things to think about: - Instant disaster response. California wildfire? whoosh Here's a portal to the Pacific Ocean. Earthquake in Turkey? Boom, immediate rescue teams and supplies. - World hunger? My guy, we can literally connect farms directly to food-insecure regions. Fresh produce going from field to table in seconds. - Energy distribution? Imagine connecting solar farms in the Sahara directly to New York City. Energy crisis solved (though some engineer's gonna have a hell of a time figuring out how to connect magical portals to the power grid lol) - Healthcare could be completely revolutionized. Need a heart transplant? That organ isn't dying in transit anymore. Got a rare disease? Cool, let's portal in the world's top specialist for a quick consult.
This would obviously be heavily regulated, but entire systems would change. Ned was able to summon the other 2 Peters in NWH, and he’s never had any training. Now that the world knows about teleportation, wouldn’t governments want to dive deeper into this and try to harness/systematize this for the benefit of mankind?
And here's where it gets philosophically interesting - would this actually fix things, or just create new problems? Like, do national borders even matter anymore? How do you stop billionaires from hoarding portal access? Would we end up with some weird sorcerer-dependent society?
What other problems do you think could be solved (or created) by normalized portal usage in the MCU?