So I know that I talked about this last week when Amazon launched Amazon Go, but robots are going to take over the world. If you didn’t believe me back then when they were phasing out our cashiers you have to be convinced now that we have UPS drivers being replaced by high tech toy helicopters. (Doug Heffernan is not going to have an easy time managing this late in life career change)
There isn’t too much to say on this one, Amazon announced that they were trying to do this a few years ago on 60 minutes and now it looks like they have actually figured out how.
I think its great that they are doing this in the English country side. They needed to do it somewhere in the country so they didn’t have these drones contending with buildings and telephone wires but it probably would have been a lot easier to just do it in America somewhere. Setting up shop in Nebraska would have made the guy running this project’s life a lot easier if he didn’t have to travel from Amazon HQ in Seattle to England all the time. Know why its not in Nebraska though? That shit would be shot out of the sky faster than Jackson can kill Nazis in Saving Private Ryan (classic WWII movie reference since we are going to be seeing some good WWII movies in the near future hopefully). Every redneck in the county would be taking shots at the “weird flying robot doohickey that the government sent to control our minds” (Rednecks and I are surprisingly similar to one another).
Getting my packages delivered with the same 30 minutes or less policy as Dominoes is just another huge benefit to robots taking over. The more cool shit that Amazon wants to come out with to lead to the destruction of humanity the happier I will be, cause right now the benefits seem spectacular.
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