Now that would be cool. While we're at it, can we also have a Holodeck?

Modern physics suggests that such a teleportation technology isn't beyond the realm of possibility. Even though quantum mechanics would make it impossible to transmit a totally perfect copy of you on the other side (totally perfect meaning measuring and regenerating all of the quantum states of each particle that makes you up), it is absurd to suggest that that level of perfection is required for successful teleportation - our brains are constantly sloughing off molecules, and we're composed of particles that are always fluctuating their quantum states. What makes us "us" almost certainly is not even dependent on anything at the quantum level. I don't think we'll ever build such a device though. Why? Because it would be impractical. We're a lot more likely to shed our biological forms in favour of living as "virtual persons", tied to no specific hardware, before we ever could conquer all of the ridiculously complicated challenges of getting teleportation of human-sized objects (and especially of delicate meat-sacks such as ourselves). As entities of data, our identity-specific information could be transmitted at the speed of light in the form of electromagnetic radiation to a remote location for upload into suitable hardware to run the software that we will become. For the same reason, I think it's unlikely we'll ever build very large (human-sized or bigger) stable wormholes. Assuming maintaining a stable wormhole of any size is even possible, the energy requirements to enlarge one to man-size (or even to be about a square centimeter in area) would be tremendous, I believe more than the net energy output of our sun. It would be much more practical to maintain a collection of subatomic-scale wormholes to remote locations, and transmit data (such as ourselves) as electromagnetic radiation to get to the "other side". Through such a method, we could set up wormhole connections to arbitrarily distant locales in the universe (after first travelling there slower than light to carry the "other side" of the wormhole), and effectively engage in instantaneous teleportation of a sort. On the lighter side, if I could teleport anywhere this weekend, I'd go to Amsterdam, the capitol of my home country. I love it there - and has a great night life.

We're getting there: "However, it was reported in October 2006 in the weekly science magazine "Nature" [3] that Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough in the field.[4] Their experiment involved the transportation of information from a weak light beam to a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms, located half a meter away. The technique involved the use of quantum entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation#Recent_developments Each hurdle we encounter is being lept over, I think that at some point we will even get to the point of teleporting living organisms.

Yes we will because that is the greatest thing I can think of technology wise. I would go to all the places I can't go now because of time and lack of funds. I'd visit my AB friends first, however.

Hughes electronics did invent a way to send ionized water molecules attached to photons in a laser beam to a ship in orbit! It required a lot of electrical power and was thought to be of value only as an emergency backup. But in a sense this was the first matter transporter of a kind like in science fiction shows!