While the technology to move a package from point A to point B safely and autonomously is pretty cool, I think the more interesting story is what will happen to

While the technology to move a package from point A to point B safely and autonomously is pretty cool, I think the more interesting story is what will happen to enable this feat. One thing Amazon has done right over the years has been figuring out how to blow away existing practices and technologies in the shipping and fulfillment space to replace or upgrade them with processes or tech allowing for ridiculous savings in cost and time. The "13 min -- click to delivery." is really neat but there are so many services necessary to bring it to reality that are really fascinating as well: 1) The website itself probably speaking to dozens of micro services to take the order and complete the order. 2) The fulfillment of the order in an automated warehouse. For the most part, a huge robotic fleet is employed to find, process, package, and ready a package for delivery. 3) The movement of the package to the drone delivery platform or fleet. 3a) The attachment or delivery of the payload to the drone itself. 4) The delivery, tracking, and confirmation of delivery, for the package itself. 5) The return, maintenance, and readiness completion of the drone for the next flight. All of these processes are going to involve dozens of technologies, robots, humans, global services, local services, legal regulations, and more. The video shows a small garage and a single unit on tracks with a human finishing the packaging. All of this will have to replaced, scaled, and automated in a variety of capacities before this becomes cost effective. Really interesting time to be alive to watch these processes evolve as they will be almost invisible and taken for granted in the next 20 years or so.