TacoCopter and the Imminent Age of Drones - Dyland Hendricks via Institute For The Future We’re at the ground floor of the Drone Age. That was the message from Star Simpson, who stopped by the Institute yesterday to talk about TacoCopter, her in-joke turned viral juggernaut. The idea behind TacoCopter is relatively simple, but irresistibly futuristic: order tacos from your smartphone, and your friendly neighborhood unmanned drone will deliver them to your exact GPS coordinates within minutes. Star created tacocopter.com in 2011 as a joke to a friend, then promptly moved on to other projects. It wasn’t until March of 2012 that the popular blog Hacker News discovered her site, at which point every 21st century media outlet jumped onto the story of the business that would change restaurants forever. It didn’t seem to matter whether TacoCopter was real or not - it was an idea whose time had come. via futuramb:

TacoCopter and the Imminent Age of Drones - Dyland Hendricks via Institute For The Future

We’re at the ground floor of the Drone Age.

That was the message from Star Simpson, who stopped by the Institute yesterday to talk about TacoCopter, her in-joke turned viral juggernaut. The idea behind TacoCopter is relatively simple, but irresistibly futuristic: order tacos from your smartphone, and your friendly neighborhood unmanned drone will deliver them to your exact GPS coordinates within minutes. Star created tacocopter.com in 2011 as a joke to a friend, then promptly moved on to other projects. It wasn’t until March of 2012 that the popular blog Hacker News discovered her site, at which point every 21st century media outlet jumped onto the story of the business that would change restaurants forever. It didn’t seem to matter whether TacoCopter was real or not - it was an idea whose time had come.

via futuramb:

Source: iftf.org

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dronestacocopterstar simpson

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    So want one of these..
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    Tacos on demand!
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    The little big brother =)
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    Is it still a design fiction when the idea was so absurd upon first conception that its thinker thought it would remain...
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