One of my fave sci-fi short stories is “Flash Crowd” by Larry Niven. Written in the 1970s, it depicts much of what the world would be like if we had teleportation as a main mode of personal transport. Replace “newstaper” with “blogger” and you’d essentially update this short story by a bit. And smartphones, definitely need those. Meanwhile, we are on the cusp of autonomous, self-driving taxis. These may be the closest thing we have to personal teleportation.