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Replace "car" with "box truck" and the metaphor fits a lot more closely and remains strong. Businesses need vehicles to deliver stuff. Drones are poised to repl
by RickS 12y ago
Replace "car" with "box truck" and the metaphor fits a lot more closely and remains strong. Businesses need vehicles to deliver stuff. Drones are poised to replace trucks in that regard.
Also, who says a family won't own 2.2 of them? When I forget a file at home, I have dropbox. What happens when I forget my sandwich? As reliability goes up and cost goes down, a drone becomes a very reasonable family purchase.
- stcredzero 12y agoIn the case where that happens, only a handful of times a year, why wouldn't I rather hire a drone Uber style to deliver that one package?
- uptown 12y agoPerhaps. But even-so, distribute the total number of "drones", and divide by the population and I bet you'd get close to that ratio. Whether they're quad-copters, SUVs, vacuum cleaners, or some "drone" in a factory retrieving the products a consumer just ordered ... whatever ... I'd bet that society does shift in the direction of robots or drones handling an increasingly-long list of services currently handled by humans.