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This is from a dystopian anthology I read in the early 1970's.

Humans encounter a friendly alien race that shares advanced technologies. The protagonist's daughter (maybe) begs him to not use the Star Trek-style transporter. It seems harmless -- he uses it and so do most other people. Later they they learn the transporter kills off the person's creativity / spark / soul -- and that the alien culture has become insipid / barren from this effect.

This was NOT the Slabscape books (first published in 2010). I read this in the early 1970s.

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    Probably the same story I'm looking for from scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/220287/… although I don't have much information to provide since it was a secondhand query. It might be useful to know that the narrator may be a reporter.
    – FuzzyBoots
    Commented May 26, 2020 at 21:33
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