At SignandSight.com, an interview with Anton Zeilinger, Viennese physician, who has teleported light particles and, occasionally, larger atoms.

He says that in a thousand years or so we might be able to teleport larger objects, like coffee cups or, presumably, Rolling Stones tickets. We’re a long way from teleporting a human being, however, for several reasons. One is that a human represents such a vast amount of information. Says Zeilinger:

The atoms in a human being are the equivalent to the information mass of about a thousand billion billion billion bits. Even with today’s top technology, this means it would take about 30 billion years to transfer this mass of data.

Makes you feel kind of special, doesn’t it?