I never understood this take, or most takes implying that the “take 'em apart and put 'em together” form of teleportation wouldn’t be the holy grail of science.

Being able to teleport something is cool and all, but the thing that people should care about much much more is what that actually means: you are disassembling and reassembling a person or object at the atomic level.

This means, you are able to take an arbitrary collection of atoms, and build it into an arbitrary formation.

That’s not a teleporter, that’s a matter printer. Any and all economic implications of teleportation become mute, as the entire concept of an economy becomes irrelevant with the ability to print anything out of literally dirt and rubbish.

Even the concept of human life becomes practically worthless, since if you can put together a human, what’s to stop you from putting together 2? Or 20? Or put together the latest backup of someone who died?

If anyone ever manages to invent this kind of teleportation, it would matter for about 3 seconds before being eclipsed by whatever consequences this has for humanity as a whole - good and bad.

Passwords should be like bad experiences.

The more you remember the worse they were.