Did you ever own a 1,200 baud modem?
Remember the noise? Remember how slow it was?
Did it stop you from connecting to CompuServe or AOL or you favorite BBS? No. We connected anyway.
Remember how cool it was to go from 1,200 baud to 2,400 baud?
I know that's kind of geeky, but early drone networks are going to feel the same.
- The drones will be noisy.
- The payloads are going to be tiny (ounces) and the containers they are held in will be clunky.
- The distance drones travel will be short (less than a mile).
- There will be frequent failures (drones in trees and on rooftops).
- Hassles will occur (problems with government regulators, police, and nutty neighbors).
- It will seem like everything needs to be done by hand.
None of this matters. It's actually kind of fun to experience this and solve he problems presented.
Some people won't see any value in enduring the hardships of an early Dronet.
Worse, some will dismiss it entirely. I remember when serious people told me that the Internet was "a fad" like CB radios or "inconsequential" since we already had CompuServe/AOL and corporate LANs.
Fortunately, there will be lots of entrepreneurial, flexible minds out there willing to take up the challenge.
People willing to build a 1 mile, door to door, drone delivery system based on an emerging number of open standards. They'll find a reason to make it valuable. It will scratch their itch in a way no other system could.
They will share their experiences and other people will find it scrathes their itch too...
Keep inventing the future,
JOHN ROBB
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