At the suggestion of Dr. Michio Kaku, I would start out with an attempt to teleport something small. The first step would be to transport the essence of a solid object, not an image, like an examinable Death Star in Star Wars, except that one could do something like put their hand in the beam, and viola a temporary copy object would be created, at the receiving end.
I would expect to teleport using direction, essentially a vector that disappears in the same trajectory. Picture teleportation as sending stuff through the internet. Remember the old days of zip files? The object would be packed as some sort of a zip file, and then beamed to a specific part of creation, specifically a receptor, probably a large magnet that would shatter the information, a fragile file, back into constructing itself in the desired form, a more robust file, such as a living being.
Maybe have an electrical interface on the teleportee's hand while inside of a scanning machine to facilitate transport or something and when they want to be teleported they just plug into a computer and then as packed molecules they go to the destination set for travel through the internet, and via magnet the computer intelligently unpacks them as if they were a zipped file.
Teleportation via hardwiring would almost certainly come before beaming anything from one place to a different place.
As I see it, we are data, and by that I mean that we are as a puzzle, so even the soul would somehow have to be coded for, meaning coding for variability. In fact, most of the body would need to have some variability coded for beyond what is already set in place by DNA. So to travel we would have to morph into a more compact puzzle for transit (right now to my knowledge we are only able to send electrons to code for that puzzle), and don't forget, we are 3 or more dimensional puzzles. For instance DNA carries much of the information by which we are constructed, and that at some point in the future, we might be able to transmit our entire body and genetic code for 3d unpackaging.
It would be a world where instead telephoning people, or using the 2d internet, we could actually travel to meet up with people with minimal need for traditional travel. For example, we wouldn't need airplanes.
Right now the idea of teleporting a human is absurd. However, we might be able to teleport something small, such as a strand of DNA. And, then a cell. It would be a long way to the trillion or so cells that humans have, but I think if we are able to transport 1 cell, that would be one of the greatest steps. Yet, in my lifetime we went from bytes, to kilobytes, to megabytes. Last time I checked, terabyte drives were still available. I think we could do it. Given this rapid expansion that has occurred in only a few years.
Also, this idea presents the potential for profit, such as reliability of transit.
