Monday, December 2, 2013
Amazon Prime Air Will Need Approval from Federal Aviation Administration!
Still, the idea that Amazon might be able to use drones to deliver parcels (up to five pounds, at the moment) to locations within 10 miles of an Amazon warehouse would open up affordable, same-day delivery options for perhaps 80 percent of everything Amazon now sells.
IF the Federal Aviation Administration Administration approves, of course. Watch for a whale of opposition from place-based retailers.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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