I grew up near Germany's biggest electronics retailers[1] head quarters and they had these tubes ending in their consumer store.
When I was building something and needed a certain component I could just ride my bicycle a few kilometers over the country, say what I needed and a couple of minutes later it would pop out of a tube behind the counter.
I am not very nostalgic, but I miss this immediacy and hope to live long enough to see drone delivery become ubiquitous.
[1] Think RadioShack, but not RadioShack. They claimed to be Europe's biggest, but I have no idea if this was ever true.
When I was building something and needed a certain component I could just ride my bicycle a few kilometers over the country, say what I needed and a couple of minutes later it would pop out of a tube behind the counter.
I am not very nostalgic, but I miss this immediacy and hope to live long enough to see drone delivery become ubiquitous.
[1] Think RadioShack, but not RadioShack. They claimed to be Europe's biggest, but I have no idea if this was ever true.