11.04.2023

Best laid plans

Look, Up in the Sky! It’s a Can of Soup!

"Drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery."

Also, mostly everywhere.

A New York Times story this morning notes the now decade-long effort Amazon's made to realize their vision of drone delivery. It's not going well.

 Which raises an interesting point.

“Having ideas is easy,” said Rodney Brooks, a robotics entrepreneur and frequent critic of technology companies’ hype. “Turning them into reality is hard. Turning them into being deployed at scale is even harder.”
We've all heard about the tech billionaires but nobody has much interest in all the people with easy ideas and almost-as-easy venture funds who've gone bust. Must be quite a few by now.

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