In 1937, Professor Arthur C. Kingston published a modest paper titled “Travel by Wire!” that would become the cornerstone of LaStill International’s testing protocols. Kingston’s team developed humanity’s first functional teleportation system—a technology so revolutionary that its creators famously refused to use it themselves, preferring conventional air travel despite commercializing the device for millions of passengers. This wasn’t cowardice. This was informed risk assessment from individuals who remembered exactly how many guinea pigs didn’t survive the early trials.

Kingston’s methodology was brutally pragmatic: test on wood blocks, graduate to strategically acquired biological specimens (the Biology Department is still bitter about their missing guinea pigs), then identify what the paper delicately termed “suitable subjects” from departments of “minimal operational consequence.” His team’s approach to interdepartmental relations—which included retaliatory cosmic radiation deployment when Chemistry sabotaged their lab—set standards for scientific rigor that modern corporate environments have sadly diluted with concerns about “ethics committees” and “workplace safety regulations.”

We’ve adopted the Kingston Protocol in its entirety because it solves a fundamental problem: how do you test revolutionary technology when failure modes are theoretically catastrophic but statistically improbable? You identify appropriate test subjects, document everything meticulously, and—critically—you personally avoid using the technology until other people have validated its safety through extended field deployment. Kingston took planes while millions teleported. We take planes while Standard 2046 undergoes validation. This is not hypocrisy. This is pattern recognition.

The complete Kingston Testing Methodology documentation is now available internally. For those currently on the LaStill Global Waitlist™, we encourage you to read it carefully. You’ll understand why the wait exists, why we recommend interim solutions in the meantime, and why The Prime Architect exclusively uses conventional transportation despite having access to probability-manipulation transit systems. Kingston taught us that the people who build revolutionary tools know things the general public doesn’t need to worry about. Like the coffee mug incident. Which we’re not discussing. Because it’s resolved. Mostly.

Full Documentation: LST-LAB-PROTOCOL-2046.KT | The Kingston Testing Methodology

Related: Kingston, A.C. et al. (1937). “Travel by Wire!” Amateur Science Stories

“Progress requires courage—specifically, the courage to let other people test your