The underlying assumption of this post is looking increasingly unlikely to obtain. Nevertheless, I find myself back here every once and a while, wistfully fantasizing about a world that might have been.
I think the predictions hold up fairly well, though it’s hard to evaluate, since they are conditioning on something unlikely, and because it’s only been 1.5 years out of 20, it’s unsurprising that the predictions look about as plausible now as they did then. I’ve since learned that the bottleneck for drone delivery is indeed very much regulatory, so who knows whether it’ll exist in 2040. We still don’t have flying cars, after all, for basically-regulatory reasons. The military technology I outlined is looking ever-more-plausible thanks to the war in Ukraine illustrating the importance of drones of various kinds.
The underlying assumption of this post is looking increasingly unlikely to obtain. Nevertheless, I find myself back here every once and a while, wistfully fantasizing about a world that might have been.
I think the predictions hold up fairly well, though it’s hard to evaluate, since they are conditioning on something unlikely, and because it’s only been 1.5 years out of 20, it’s unsurprising that the predictions look about as plausible now as they did then. I’ve since learned that the bottleneck for drone delivery is indeed very much regulatory, so who knows whether it’ll exist in 2040. We still don’t have flying cars, after all, for basically-regulatory reasons. The military technology I outlined is looking ever-more-plausible thanks to the war in Ukraine illustrating the importance of drones of various kinds.