Dracus,
True to a point, the first integrated circuit does not compare to what we have today, and it may not have even been very integrated, but at least it was a circuit.
But this isn't really the same thing. There are fundamental differences between what this breakthrough actually is and what the press and the uneducated among us think of with Sci Fi.
This "transporter" really isn't. It's more of a 3 dimensional fax machine. But that would not make the papers or the evening news.
It's a great thing, and has many possible applications, but it ain't transporter.
Geoschmo