It's time for episode 306 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, August 7th, 2019.

Clockwise, Four People, Four's more reliable than the MBTA.

I am one of your hosts, Micah Sargent, and I am joined across the internet by Giggles McGee and writer of the MBTA.

It is my dearly beloved step-in co-host, Brian Hamilton. Hello, Brian. I ride the MBTA to and from work

every day. And unlike the MBTA, I'm so grateful that clockwise does not

randomly stop in the middle of my commute. Hi, Micah. I'm excited to talk about our awesome

guests today. To my left is the platform editor at Medium's Tech Publication 1-0. Can you guess

who it is? It's Megan Marody.

Hello, Micah. It's been so long. I haven't seen you since yesterday evening when we went on a nice hike with your dogs. And to my left is the host of Vector and editorial director at

Imor and somehow the only person with 36 hours in their day, it's Renee Ritchie.

Hi, I feel like Megan and Mike are living my better life with all this hiking and doggy talk.

Well, folks, we have, as you know, those four topics, but we've got only 30 minutes, so I'm

going to kick things off. Here is my topic for you. After ending its air shipping contract with Amazon,

FedEx says it's going to be ending its ground shipping contract soon. Let's forget FedEx and

UPS trucks. We've got robots making deliveries on the ground. We've apparently got drones

that are going to be in the sky. I'm curious, what do you think is next for delivery?

Is it going to be drones and robots or is it going to be something else?

Megan, we'll start with you.

I think everybody says drones and robots, but I hear me out.

I am going to go with teleportation.

So things will just appear, you know, when we order them on Amazon, because it will only be Amazon, they'll just teleport into our homes, which, and maybe they'll just be holograms. Like, we won't even need this stuff. It's just the idea of the stuff because like, oh my God, this is depressing. Because, you know, if you've had that experience where you're ordering something from Amazon and it's just like, you don't even really need it.

Like just the, you know, buying process was all you needed.

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