Actually, there is. Sci-fi teleportation removes something in one location, and manifests it in another. Quantum teleportation is much more like taking two huma

Actually, there is. Sci-fi teleportation removes something in one location, and manifests it in another. Quantum teleportation is much more like taking two human bodies (one yours, one inert) and two throw-away specially prepared human bodies, splitting them up as (you,special) somewhere and (special,inert) somewhere else, and then running a destructive read-local/write-remote operation. In order to effect Quantum Teleportation, we run a process that literally wrecks one of the specially prepared bodies, _kills you_, and then if the second step of the process is run correctly on the other pair of bodies, wrecks the other specially prepared body and _restores you_ as you were before the cache-and-restore process, in the previously inert body. And that's only if the second half of the process gets run correctly. It's quantum operations, so any quantum interference may disturb the system and you stay dead forever. Or, in QT terms: entanglement is lost and the information obtained is no longer correlated. This is so far removed from what non-science considers teleportation that it is a misnomer at best, and a populist term when used outside of science at worst =)