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Zipline: One Climber's Bet on Delivery From the Sky

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In 2014, in California, a former pro climber named Keller Rinaudo Cliffton started building the half of a system nobody else would. In Tanzania, he had seen health workers text for urgent medicine that never came. He called it a database of death.

By his account, experts told him drone delivery was impossible, would never be allowed, and nobody would pay for it. Rwanda’s health minister told…