Last week I suggested, in my article Toupee or not? about Sony filing an application for a ‘wearable computer’ inside a wig, that this was a worthy April Fool’s joke. It wasn’t.
Today the BBC is running a similar 'April Fool-type' news item about Amazon introducing drones to deliver packages up to 2.3kg within 30 minutes of the order being placed using Octocopters. Jeff Bezos says the service will up and running within 5 years and be called Prime Air. I don't think he's joking either!
Now, before we all collapse in a fit of giggles, anyone who has attended any of my talks recently will know that I end with sequence of predictions which goes from ‘wearables’ to ‘driveables’ to ‘flyables’. Indeed I predict that drones will become as big a business in the civilian world as they are in the military. Clearly traffic surveillance, crime detection, surveillance of oil pipes in remote locations etc are obvious applications. So why not deliveries?