Drone society 2.1 – You ain’t seen nothing yet

I have always been interested in innovation Nd when the first drones were introduced, I – like many other innovators – could see potentially millions of new possibilities for this technology in the future.

The ambition from the start was high and the early examples were outstandingly promising. Then it took some time to see the real commercial and social benefits materialize. Now we are there – and in fact, we have been for som time.

Here is one example. Zipline delivers medicine and blood for transfusions across Rwanda.

This is all done with unmanned drones that are the loaded in 30 seconds, delivers the packages with super accuracy, return to base and can be used again and again.

They’ve made almost half a million deliveries – while most of us still think that operational and scaled systems like this probably is something for the future.

Check out this movie! Incredibly impressive!

There are already drone pilot projects connecting systems like this one – with the international supply and value chains to make global trade more efficient.

Watch out, this is an area that will explode – at least for certain of products. When we connect this last mile delivery option with integrated supply chain solutions in an echosystem of trust – with trade compliance management supervision, then borders becomes truly invincible.

We have just seen the start of this development. A delivery recolution is coming. Like my Canadian heroes in Bachman-Turner Overdrive once sang, ’You ain’t seen nothing yet’.