What if we could address the unaddressable?

Name: What if we could address the unaddressable?
Uploaded: 2018-05-04T20:37:21Z
Duration: 10 min 49 s
Description: Mario Paluzzi presents us with a logistical puzzle: How can we deliver packages to the three-quarters of the global population who don't have a street address? In this what-if talk, he proposes a bold new system of pinpointing addresses not to people's homes, but to their mobile phones. It's a glimpse of the future of global package delivery.

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Mario Paluzzi |

TED@UPS

• September 2016

Mario Paluzzi presents us with a logistical puzzle: How can we deliver packages to the three-quarters of the global population who don't have a street address? In this what-if talk, he proposes a bold new system of pinpointing addresses not to people's homes, but to their mobile phones. It's a glimpse of the future of global package delivery.