The most recent successful teleportation experiment took place on October 4, 2006 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Eugene Polzik and his team teleported information stored in a laser beam into a cloud of atoms. According to Polzik, "It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium
To be able to successfully teleport a human being the first thing we would have to do is scan each individual atom in the travelers body, (That's each individual person who wants to be teleported) about a trillion trillion atoms. The data containing the information about these atoms would be beamed to the location you desire, where the traveller would be reconstructed atom by atom and presto! You have arrived.
Herein lies the problem, only the data containing the information about the travelers atoms is transmitted, not the traveller. Their body is destroyed in the process and a copy reconstructed at the other end. What happens to consciousness, the non tangible, non matter part that makes us who we are? What happens to our memories? Is it the same person who is reconstructed or just a physically copy of their physically bodies? The cost of traveling down the wire or wireless of this biological fax machine may be the death of the original traveller, their ideas, their dreams, emotions and memories. They may be reconstructed a mere copy of themselves. A reflection of what they once were. Like looking at a old home video, you can recognize them but they're not the real person.