Drones are the industry in the last 6 months. It’s just beginning.

They’ve not even started for most of the domestic and consumer uses. They’re only just scratching the surface of commercial and military application.

In 30 years people will have subscriptions to a drone service that will take x# of packages for them within their city/geography per month/year with weight tiers. Etc. errands and single use car trips and commercial trips in the last mile will drastically decrease.

The skies will never be as they are again. The generation growing up right now will be the last to have been able to look up at the vast expanse without some buzzing. Whirring distraction.

It’s because when so much money/power has pushed so long for people to make decisions based on money and not logic, we’ve now arrived at the point where even “the emperor’s new clothes” type moments can’t rein in the insanity; executives are bonused off this garbage and most employees who do know better–thanks to orgs’ own internal propaganda and structures–have given up caring and just publish the garbage and clock out(as they should).

He’s deliberately making the point accessible because he’s writing for all levels of readers, including Americans.

He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.