{"id":1078,"date":"2011-08-30T02:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2013-01-21T03:13:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:13:39","slug":"fastcompany-interview-for-matternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"FastCompany Interview about Matternet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Initial Press &amp; Interviews from the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program 2011 :<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Scwartz writes for FastCompany: &#8220;The Matternet: A Flying Autonomous Delivery System For The Developing World&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without access to all-season roads&#8211;meaning a large portion of the world&#8217;s population can&#8217;t get medication, food, and other supplies when they need them. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/matternet.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matternet<\/a>, a concept created by a group of students in this summer&#8217;s class at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/singularityu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singularity University<\/a>, aims to leapfrog road-based transportation altogether with a network of electric autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) in the developing world that transports supplies and people from place to place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think of it as the Jetsons meets Mother Theresa.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole interview <a title=\"FastCompany :: Matternet coverage.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1776951\/matternet-flying-autonomous-delivery-system-developing-world\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of it as the Jetsons meets Mother Theresa: &#8220;We want to shift the paradigm and say, do you really need roads?&#8221; explains Matternet team member Arturo Pelayo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,70,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aria","category-matternet","category-media-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}