Why not just duplicate? (Score 1)

It seems to me that teleportation as we intend it would only be worthwhile when applied to living things, and doing that would raise all the philosophical questions that have been mentioned already. However, if you can store the information needed to create a copy of an object, why would you destroy the original? just duplicate it. (whoa, that would be an awesome slogan... I claim ownership) So really, what we need is long distance replication. (Cue sexual double entendre jokes.)

Vendors would have a never-ending delivery system, and I could make copies of that $100 that's sitting in my wallet...