Everyone Should Have Their Very Own Drone
February 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM Leave a comment
Stanford University professor Francis Fukuyama built his very own drone, and not just because it would be a cool, guy-thing to do:
It is extremely easy to build a drone now that can do not just surveillance but can carry rather large payloads. If you want to see how large some of these planes get, check out this video of a model Airbus A380. I don’t have to spell out the implications of this. I want to have my drone before the government makes them illegal. The US has been fighting such low-tech enemies lately that we haven’t thought through the nature of a world in which lots of people have sophisticated drones, not just other countries but private individuals.
Here’s video of a test flight:
I like the way Fukuyama thinks. Since “police departments across the country are marshaling a new generation of remote-controlled airborne surveillance devices to be their eyes in the sky,” maybe we should all have our very own drone to keep an eye on police drones. At some point, with potentially thousands of drones flying around, it’s going to get silly. Drones watching drones watching drones.
Entry filed under: Musings. Tags: airborne surveillance, eyes in the sky.
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