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Feeding our ever-growing appetite for faster and more convenient delivery, shipments from online purchases are set to almost double in the next few years. A future in which drone and autonomous vehicle deliveries could be as common as checking the mailbox seems closer everyday. But before we can get there, first we must solve a major logistical problem: the nearly four billion people without addresses. We talk to the experts transforming the way we think about location and we’ll hear from an investment expert about the solutions he’s tracking. This is The Future According To Now, a podcast from Atlantic Re:think, the branded content studio at The Atlantic, and Fidelity Investments, with production support from At Will Media.
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