Gadgetory

my name is Astro teller and I'm the captain of moon shots at X you know I think people over focus on drones Plus burritos I just think that that's sort of missing the point flying burritos could be a thing of the future really new video as a researcher start test every time we have as a society as a species removed another big chunk of the friction in how physical things are moved around in the physical world boats planes trains horses and the Pony Express each one of these things has profoundly changed Society it's easy for us to see those things looking backwards because we've become used to not having the frictions that have been removed we would never go back but we're very used to the remaining friction and how physical things are moved around in the physical world if you could just snap your fingers and have something magically appear in your hand whenever you wanted it to let's say it was no cost and it was instantaneous you have a hammer in your home you probably have a power drill you use it one ten-thousandth of the time maybe one 100,000th of the time if that hammer was sitting in some central location it could be shared by thousands of people really safely making everybody wealthier functionally because they would get the hammer when they need it without having to pay for the hammer and drain the world's resources by making all of these hammers that go almost entirely unused if we could move from an ownership society to an access society we're having it now wasn't important what was important was having it when you need it it would really dramatically magically change the world now how is it going to be possible for something to appear just when you want it everyone can imagine harry potter howell post bringing that hammer to their home even if they think that drones are unlikely well we certainly can't tolerate things being moved to your home with the carbon footprint and the sound pollution and the traffic congestion and the unsafety level of cars bringing that hammer to your home why do you have a 4000 pound truck that has one single four pound piece of food in it coming across town surely that factor of a thousand and weight and cost it doesn't make any sense at all we can do better than that and when we do we will look backwards and wonder that we ever used to have a time when everyone owned their own hammer it will just seem bizarre to us you