One of the stocks-in-trade of sci-fi is a sky full of machines, hovering, whirring, darting and generally busying around, taking off and landing and shooting away in all directions. From The Jetsons to Star Wars, you can't do a prosperous sci-fi future without it.
Now it looks as though that future may nearly be here, with the news that Amazon is testing octocopters for delivery purposes. It sounds incredible, I know, and maybe it's just a publicity stunt (current AI probably isn't up to it — will they have operators flying them by joystick over the internet?) but at least it means that people are thinking about it, and that means it may be about to happen.
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