[regal]

Worth noting that teleportation also necessitates the destruction of your previous "you" along with creation of a duplicate "you." Even if it was workable without the massive amounts of time or energy stated in the article, there'd be some obvious ethical dilemmas - the process kills original you in the process of copying and recreating original you.

Interestingly, in the long run this probably doesn't "matter" for anyone else or even your role in the universe, because there's still a perfect copy of you doing exactly what you would have done, so it's like you didn't die. But you did still die... and dying is rather scary for most people.

[miguelrochefort]

The worst part is when they create two copies of you. What happens to the contracts you signed? Are both of you engaged to your wife? Can both of you keep your job? Who owns your house?

Teleportation (and duplication) makes me realize that maybe we should change how we understand private property.

[informatimago]

Some consequences of unintended cloning are explored in the movie "The 6th Day".

But if some "transportation" is required, it may be easier and cheaper to just send information, and to use the energy and matter found at the destination to build the copy.

Ethically, it may be preferable to keep the original copy, even if legally it is a problem. But ethics should prevail on legality.

Is Startrek civilization more legalist than ethic?

Otherwise, what we'd really want, is not teletransportation, but updating of space coordinates without using any transportation.