jseal – Can’t agree with you. The rate of change will increase. One of the first applications of quantum entanglement will be in the field of quantum information science. When realized, the number crunching demanded for teleportation will be trivial compared to capacity. Here’s an example:
How many computational steps are needed to find the prime factors of a 300-digit composite integer number?
The best classical algorithm suggests about 5*10^24 steps – about 150,000 years with a 1 GHz clock. The cost of computing increases exponentially. Using quantum computing the cost rises only polynomially, and takes only 5*10^10 steps. Guess what? Less than 1 second on the same box. (Peter Shor, AT&T Labs, 1994)
It will be the rest of the engineering that’ll stop it from happening. Africandan also correctly pointed out that the receiver would have to pre-exist – so no spooky Star Trek opportunities there.
Still, it is theoretically possible – and it will be computationally possible sooner than you may think.
One good source on quantum information science for those who are interested – is
www.qubit.org