Re:Delivery By Drones
by furyg3 on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @06:28AM
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Pizza, Starbucks, mail? Really? What worthless examples.
I'm guessing most mail can be eliminated, tomorrow. Make snail mail marketing illegal, you take out probably 90% or more of all mail. You also take out 90% of the income for the post office, making the rest more expensive, driving people to digitize what bits they haven't already done. Convenience win, environmental win.
As for Pizza, what socially worthless tradeoff. Noise pollution, total surveillance by corporations, crashed drones and trash in your backyard, for what? So that we can get fatter with even less effort?
Rescue services, organ transplants, air pollution monitoring, emergency communications, OK. But making it easier for someone to get a Frappachino? Do we still need to solve that problem?
I'm guessing most mail can be eliminated, tomorrow. Make snail mail marketing illegal, you take out probably 90% or more of all mail. You also take out 90% of the income for the post office, making the rest more expensive, driving people to digitize what bits they haven't already done. Convenience win, environmental win.
As for Pizza, what socially worthless tradeoff. Noise pollution, total surveillance by corporations, crashed drones and trash in your backyard, for what? So that we can get fatter with even less effort?
Rescue services, organ transplants, air pollution monitoring, emergency communications, OK. But making it easier for someone to get a Frappachino? Do we still need to solve that problem?