"...soon you might well have a targeted, unmanned drone landing right in your back garden and the incoming will have your name on it.
This won’t be the work of a foreign government or an antagonistic power. You won’t be cursing the enemy or cowering in the basement. You’ll know exactly what’s coming your way because you asked for it, quite literally.
This isn’t a nightmarish future of terrorism or government surveillance. Soon you’ll be able to order a direct strike on your own home from a drone and determine the payload too.
This is the future of e-commerce delivery and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos calls it Amazon Prime Air.."
According to an interview he gave on US TV show 60 Minutes on Sunday, Jeff Bezos hopes that his company Amazon will be able to bypass couriers and the postal service, by sending your orders directly using airborne delivery drones within 3-5 years.
If you’re close enough to one of the Amazon distribution centres (which are being developed quickly and extensively in areas of high population density in the US and UK), you might well have that vital purchase within 30 minutes.
Frankly, if he’s serious, this drone technology could be dropping Amazon purchases up to 10 pounds in weight into American gardens very soon indeed.
We’re encouraged to welcome every innovation and rejoice at every new development that means we can sate our consumer urges faster, better and more often. Increasingly nowadays an instant fix is required for the most mundane of events and this is just the next logical step.
It used to be quite normal to wait a day or two for an online purchase to arrive in the post. Now even eBay offers same-day delivery in London and some US cities with some retailers using the eBay Now service. Impatience is a virtue.
And now Amazon are investing in little helicopters that will drop your purchase by before you’ve even had enough time to log off and make a cuppa. Is this a good thing?
If this really, ahem, takes off, we could see the skies clogged with tiny little flying machines speeding deliveries to people all over our cities. Think of all those parcels the postie brings to your street for your neighbours and you, soon they could be coming by air in swarms of little Amazon branded lunchboxes. Even George Orwell didn’t imagine such a dystopia....."
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/02/tech/innovation/amazon-drones-questions/
What do you think guys and gals?
ref monman: ...
"....If you can see the customer the other side of a paddock why not just hand over the book, OK, drop it 30 metres away then?"
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http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2013/12/1386007373.html
As ridiculous as flying, package-delivering drones may sound, there is enough
validity in the concept to make you want to check it out on Snopes. Personally,
I really want this to happen. Sure, it may not be a reality for years (or
decades) but TODAY what are people talking about? And whose brand does it put in
their consciousness?
Oh and it happens to be Cyber Monday too?..................
validity in the concept to make you want to check it out on Snopes. Personally,
I really want this to happen. Sure, it may not be a reality for years (or
decades) but TODAY what are people talking about? And whose brand does it put in
their consciousness?
Oh and it happens to be Cyber Monday too?..................
Lol
ref. supanova:
I can see lot of problems for it to work; to start with my garden has lots of trees and there are large old trees in our street; on google maps all you can see is bit of the roof and then tops of trees. But my dogs would just love if one of theses drones landed in our garden. They have been stalking the police helicopter for a while now; if one of these landed in our garden it would be killed in no time. Not sure how safe it would be to catch it going but if the blades would be dangerous to a dog, they would also be dangerous to a child.
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yes, lots of probs agreed ....but great now for the imagination .....possibilities etc
I guess the above would make one a repeat criminal offender !
"Any person who steals anything capable of being stolen is guilty of a crime......."
"Generally the penalties imposed by a court for a first offence are less than for repeat offenders."
