Prediction #5 -- Drones become Pizza-to-the-Neighborhood (PTTN)

I’ve already written one prediction about autonomous cars -- that they’ll be far later to the market than most pundits and autonomous car inventors are suggesting. Today’s prediction is about a tangentially-related technology -- aerial delivery drones. These drones are definitely coming just as fast as regulators will allow them, but I don’t think they’ll be implemented in the way people expect. What we’ll see, I predict, is something I call Pizza-to-the-Neighborhood or PTTN. Aerial drones are a new type of distribution network operating in a new kind of ether. They don’t travel on roads and neither do they travel… [Continue Reading]