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Matternet creates unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be used to ferry medicine and other goods to remote places such as rural villages in Africa. In such places, people often have to walk 20 miles to a clinic to receive treatments as simple as blood tests or pills. With Matternet, UAVs can carry the payloads instead from point to point or to automated ground stations. At some point the ground stations will be so plentiful that the UAVs could transfer items over long distances.

via VentureBeat: Singularity University graduates a class of tech world changers

Eyder’s response to this: “Why don’t we already have this?” —Wright

Why don’t we already have this? Simple. No one uses their imagination anymore. This is a solution that is very much a no-brainer, but we’re too busy focusing on old technology, old ideas and old limitations.  We’ve gotten pretty boring despite the last hundred years of fairly exceptional cleverness.

It’d be cool if we could get back to this sort of problem solving with this kind of solution.