Startrek is Real I Knew it All Along

Beam me up Scotty!  Check this article out:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0818_040818_teleportation.html

One particularly interesting clipping from this article:

The researchers read the "blueprints" of the photons they wanted to teleport. They then broke up the photons into smaller particles called quantum bits and sent these bits, along with the blueprints, through a fiber-optic cable in a sewage pipe under the river.

At the other end, replicas of the original photons were created. The original photons ceased to exist once the replicas were created.

 
Once again modern technology is borrowing from science fiction.  Think of the possibilities.  The instantaneous transfer of information revolutionized our modern era.  Implementing the instantaneous transfer of items would be a completely different revolution.  Shipping would be obsolete.  Aid could be warped around the globe at the press of a button and save millions of lives.  Or what if people could utilize this technology?  Zip off to London for lunch and be back to school in State College in time for your 2pm class.  Maybe not in our lifetime, but in our grandkids?  I'd make the long bet that it'll happen.