TED: Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that - Andreas Raptopoulos (2013)

Summary: A billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet thinks so. He introduces a new type of transportation system that uses electric autonomous flying machines to deliver medicine, food, goods and supplies wherever they are needed.