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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yes, they have been experimenting with drone delivery, but that's more of a solution in search of a problem than anything else. Maybe it's useful for delivering small packages in gridlocked cities. I'm not sure that counts when it comes to vision.
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Without the power to see what the future brings, I'm afraid you (and I) are entirely unqualified to determine what will ultimately count as "vision" in this regard.
You may end up being right, but right now, we have no idea in the least how successful (or un-) the future of drone delivery might be.
The point is that Amazon has always taken chances--have always experimented with cutting-edge technologies and practices in order to be ahead of everyone should some idea take the world by storm.
Vision is not always about
seeing the future. Sometimes it's about getting your fingers in the pies of as many things as possible (as ridiculous or unlikely as some of those things may seem right now) in the hopes that a few of them become reality. Sometimes it will pay off and sometimes it won't. But one thing will always be true: you won't be an innovative company by waiting on technologies to be viable by
today's standards before taking a serious look into them now.
I have no doubt whatsoever that there will be a lot of future whingeing about Amazon's "monopoly" on something everybody else originally saw as a pipe-dream, or a "solution in search of a problem." After all ... what's the difference between predicting a future and creating one, where business ventures are concerned?