Teleportation would bring the world as we know it to it's knees

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Many great minds have been fascinated by the possibility of teleportation-instantaneously transporting an object or group of objects from one location to another. This would solve many problems we face such as traffic, plane crashes, etc. It would help to bring an end to pollution, because automobiles, the main culprits for "global warming" would be rendered pretty much obsolete. It could be a glorious invention that would herald the coming of a new age. However, there is a side of teleportation that most people never see or contemplate. Take a moment to think about how teleportation would have to work. A super advanced computer would scan the object and map every atom that comprises it, along with each atom's position. The computer would then deconstruct the object and transmit the information to another computer, which would receive the information and reconstruct the object at it's new location. Does that pretty much describe your conception of teleportation? Now consider this. When the computer scans the object, it is only scanning and transmitting data. It is not physically transmitting the atoms to the other computer. Therefore, there is no real need to deconstruct the object at all. What does this mean? It means that a teleportation machine would have the ability to create a one to one copy of any object it had the ability to scan. This would mean a great deal of great things. For instance, world hunger would be a thing of the past if we had the ability to just "copy and paste" all the food in the world an infinite number of times. Sounds good so far, right? Now consider this. If it could clone food, do you really think we would stop there? This is a machine that would have the ability to copy anything, any number of times. That means it would be by far the most powerful invention ever conceived-it would even have the ability to copy itself. There would be no demand for anything anymore. The world as we know it operates on the principles of supply and demand, so there would be no economy. People could clone themselves if they wanted to, or clone guns and create an army. On a large enough scale, this machine could be used to clone an entire planet. The possibilities are literally endless. Think about if this machine got into the wrong hands, which it inevitably would. So next time you read about a teleportation machine or the scientists that are working so hard to create one-and they are-don't be so quick to think it's a great idea.