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Venkatesh Rao
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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      But mainly I don’t like the idea of a small box standard controlled by a single logistics company business model. I want a standard small box that’s multi-modal.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      Like I can tell ups to drop it off at a friend, give friend code to open and take something out, then have fedex pick it up and check it in to an airport storage locker. Then I can tell amazon to deliver something into that box that I pick up when I pass through that airport.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      Obviously I’m assuming digital locking with remotely changeable lock codes.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      Base model under $30 maybe? Add WiFi/5g and smart contract capability and maybe even a public-key type design (like a mailbox) where it’s easier to put stuff in than take stuff out. That would be the advanced $100 unit. Kinda like Rincewind’s magic trunk. https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/The_Luggage …

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      Such a container could pay its own way around, and even respond to simple commands like “come to me” You could distribute your stuff from say a 2 br apartment around the country in 100 boxes as you nomadically bum around, and then one-click have it all converge to you 😎

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      Maybe a $200 *really* smart version with inner/outer camera, motorized wheels, and self-charging cord. That could physically move itself small distance across intermodal shipping leg gaps. Meet you in the parking lot for eg.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      This is an apocalypse-proof way of owning stuff. You travel light, with just a couple of beige henleys and spare jeans and laptop in your backpack, plus zombie machete, but still have a mansion’s worth of stuff that’s resistant to all being looted at once by local Mad-Max gang.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      You could shard your material life across say a 100 boxes in a way that any subset of 15 boxes can sustain a basic life, and any subset of 35-50 is 80% capability. No need for billionaire bunker-mansion with landing strip in Wyoming or New Zealand.

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    9. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n Sep 26
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      I think you forget that this is a nightmare scenario for anti-terrorism.

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    10. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n Sep 26
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      Otoh, we could try to implement this using LuggageHerohttps://luggagehero.com/ 

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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      $1/hour at LAX? That’s impossible unit economics. You want under a dollar a day.

      7:07 PM - 26 Sep 2020
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        1. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n Sep 26
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          I guess you could achieve sub-dollar stuff sharding if a truck just shipped your stuff away to a warehouse in the burbs

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