face a little problem of terminology.

The term “teleportation” is used in quantum physics to denote a very specific class of phenomena that have nothing to do with the nature of the question addressed to me by the science fiction writer [@Bennet1993]. These phenomena describe the possibility of carrying information from one place to another, in ways that allow the construction of an exact duplicate of a given physical entity. This construction can be obtained only on the condition that the system of origin (i.e., the system that is to be duplicated) is altered, if not destroyed, in the process, since a well-known theorem, called the *no-cloning theorem*, forbids to create a perfect clone of a quantum entity [@Wootters1982; @Dieks1982].

Apart from this difficulty, the quantum teleportation, understood in the usual sense mentioned above, requires the preparation of special pairs of non-separated (entangled) systems that have to connect the two spatial regions between which the teleportation is to be produced, which for this reason is also called *entanglement-assisted teleportation*. In other words, this form of quantum teleportation requires the presence of technological apparatuses tailored to the specificities of the entities to be teleported, and the execution of a series of 