The Matternet, or: How to use those evil drones for Good

NPR had a story the other day, "Five Nerds to Watch in 2013," and the idea of one of them, Andreas Raptopoulos, really grabbed me. He wants to build the Matternet :

"There [are] 1 billion people in the world today that do not have access to all-season roads," Raptopoulos explains. "So that means in the rainy season when roads are washed out there's 1 billion people in the world that are disconnected from all social and economic activity."

They are cut off from doctors and medicine. There is no m...