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> (e.g. organs, custom-manufactured components, et cetera)

Serious question for someone who knows. How common is it to have an organ ready for transplant, but not time enough to wait the hours it woukd take to transport it across the country?

Seems quite unlikely to me that this will be the dominating use case for the technology. Hypothetically, if I was an investor interested in making investments that save peoples lives, I'd suspect this is not the most worthwhile investment I could make.




> quite unlikely to me that this will be the dominating use case for the technology

Low-latency long haul doesn’t exist, so it’s tough to track. That said, I agree this would be a fringe use. (Disaster relief is the common, if commercially unrealistic, answer.)




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