On “60 Minutes,” Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced a “big surprise”: His company is in the planning stages for residential package deliveries by drone.
Many took to Twitter to speculate on the age-old question, “what could possibly go wrong?”
http://twitter.com/#!/jimgeraghty/status/407318394828898304 http://twitter.com/#!/jimgeraghty/status/407317226169982976 http://twitter.com/#!/jimgeraghty/status/407320225470640128 http://twitter.com/#!/KerryPicket/status/407316917704482816 http://twitter.com/#!/douglaswicker/status/407340228551397376 http://twitter.com/#!/standsagreenoak/status/407340057431781376 http://twitter.com/#!/KamaainaInOC/status/407323838452883456 http://twitter.com/#!/JR_Howell_JR/status/407341568664686593 http://twitter.com/#!/Doc_0/status/407320811520139264 http://twitter.com/#!/jenna/status/407340414186684416Then of course there’s the question of how many shoot-downs will occur:
http://twitter.com/#!/morningmoneyben/status/407316149768949760 http://twitter.com/#!/JeffreyGoldberg/status/407323691073011712 http://twitter.com/#!/markjardine/status/407343590205964288 http://twitter.com/#!/yonatron/status/407341167865790464Presumably any good delivery drone would be equipped with impressive self-defense capabilities.
Though there are no doubt many wrinkles in the plan that Amazon.com will have to iron out, we do hope Bezos considers this idea:
http://twitter.com/#!/sarma/status/407341186840424448Yes!
