Three Men on a Boat 
If any of the news making the rounds in the tech world is to be taken seriously it looks like flying robots will soon replace the delivery guy in making deliveries of parcels, food, packages letters and such like.
It turns out Amazon the online shopping behemoth is already experimenting with the idea of flying robots and they are currently working on the Amazon Prime Air drones that could feasibly be used as autonomous delivery vehicles.
If you thought this was some whacky idea by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, you may want to know that Amazon is the not the only company tinkering with the idea. Another company that’s into delivery in a big way, UPS is also looking into getting flying robots to deliver packages.
We kind of get the logic or replacing vehicles and humans with robots. Costs are cut; deliveries are made faster, no noisy, loud, polluting transport trucks. We get all that, but we think these guys are getting a little ahead of themselves here.
While this idea might take years to be implemented and many more years to reach the shores of Zimbabwe, we actually think this is one of those ideas that sounds brilliant but has many flaws.
let’s take a hypothetical situation to see how practical it may be in the Zim context and indeed anywhere else in the world:
So its mid month and you have just jumped out of a kombi and you are walking home to an empty fridge then suddenly you look up and see a delivery drone about to land somewhere in your hood and its branded on the side in bold the words Pizza Inn what would you do?
Before you give a puritanical answer think of how you and people in your hood reacted when the national breweries Chibuku truck or Coca-cola van tipped over somewhere near where you live.
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