An artist’s depiction of the OpenAir and Airthropic devices – no AI was used by the artist

Let me tell you the exciting story of OpenAir and Airthropic. These large tech companies have issued competing announcements of being at the cusp of solving “the oxygen-delivery problem.” They each have developed a vacuum-drone technology that flies over the Amazon forest, captures tons of oxygen, and then stores it in cute little bottles that can be conveniently sold to happy consumers – and all this done by the vacuum-drones themselves!

OpenAir and Airthropic have said their processes scale so well they both expect forests to become replaceable in the not-too-distant future (“an Amazon forest in every drone” as I keep hearing lately!). The oxygen problem once fully solved, it is fair to ask why we don’t do something more productive with all that land occupied by the Amazon.

While I have heard some say that somehow this would leave us without oxygen, that sounds a little self-serving to me. These two companies have solved the oxygen problem! Perhaps we should celebrate having alternative sources for oxygen that do not depend on trees? One of these two companies even started as a non-profit, both are trying to improve the world. I ask myself, how can some people be so against technology to the point of becoming anti-oxygen? OpenAir and Airthropic have both been clear about their motivations, and they sound fairly altruistic to me: they just want to make oxygen-abundance a reality!.

The pro-forest elites and old forestal guards might argue the Amazon forest is the lung of planet Earth, crucial for the very availability of oxygen, et cetera. If you ask me, I feel they might be threatened by the fact each tiny bottle sold by OpenAir or Airthropic contains more concentrated oxygen than what many large trees produce on their own. I think we should embrace the future and not lose an opportunity for progress. Get with the times friends!, let’s not behave like luddites. There is plenty of oxygen in the machines to get us by for a long time.