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Is Human teleportation a reality?

Was just browsing wikipedia (I'm a saddo I know) and I came across this - A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called dematerialization), then "beam" it to a target, where it is reconverted into matter (rematerialization). The term transporter accident is a catch-all term for when a person or object does not rematerialize correctly. Which was fine, but then I stumbled across this - In August 2008, physicist Michio Kaku predicted in Discovery Channel Magazine that a teleportation device similar to those in Star Trek would be invented within 100 years. Which made me think "wtf?" I mean how would it be realistically conceivable, especially within 100 years, if it did take off it'd be amazing. But I don't see the logic in it. Can anyone please - in lamen's terms, science is not my strong point - explain the reality in this

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1. the theory is there but in real life it will take over a million years for your atoms to be put back together and even then they most likely wont be in the right place :)
2. The interesting thing is that research on this is already pretty far along. We've already managed to teleport light! Yeah, photons are different from matter, that's for sure, but it's already a pretty big start. An I mean really, think of it. All you need is for something to memorize your exact molecular constitution (yeah, it sounds insane, but seeing how fast science is evolving makes things relative) and then just disintegrate you. Then, on the other side, all you need is something capable of 'rebuilding' you according to the data collected in the first phase, and there you go! You've moved. Of course, the 'transporter accident' would be an issue, since everything malfunctions once in a while, so in my opinion, saying that teleportation will be invented sometime in the next 100 years is fine, but I really don't think it'll be used for anything else than transporting goods, since the risk of loosing (literally) someone would be huge.
3. Teleportation is a fictional process. It is true that all great ideas start out as pie in the sky dreaming, and then become reality when scientific knowledge advances and someone wants to pay for the device. At one time Lenoard Nemoy opened his cell phone and talked on it, and had a flashback to the communicators in use on the Star Trek program. These things can happen. As far as a transporter becoming a reality ... Well the science and technology is not there yet. There is no way to prove that one cannot be built. A negative can't be proven. You will just have to come back in 100 years and see.
4. There is no reality to something that does not exist yet. It may be as was suggested by an episode of The Twilight Zone. The traveler was merely copied at the other location and the original had to be destroyed. Otherwise, the universe would run out of room and materials to make more people and feed them.