Sunday, July 12, 2015

The problem with drones

Imagine a despot with military drones, even with a small drone like you see young adults and children playing with at the beach with a small automatic pistol connected to a camera that can be shot remotely. So, he doesn't like a rival (for any reason) so he sends a drone with an automatic pistol to shoot this person in the night with an infrared camera. If the gun had a silencer on it and was fired from above all one might hear is "click click" and then it might fly away unnoticed.

So, from the smaller drones to the larger ones, almost all of them CAN be modified to be lethal even if it would be by putting sharp metal  propellers on them and flying up next to someone's head or neck in the night.

So, the problem with drones is they can fly by night unseen using infrared cameras and flown in pitch dark, track a person by their cellphone gps and kill them with no one the wiser especially if that person is walking alone somewhere. This I think is the problem with Drones: Accountability.

It's just going to mean many more unsolved crimes and deaths around the world than now.

I think one of the best ways to think about drones is by watching "Oblivion" with Tom Cruise and imagine a world something like that mostly having become that way by too many military drones around the world.


  1. Oblivion (2013) - IMDb

    www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013Cached
    Directed by Joseph Kosinski. With Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough. A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to ...

  2. Oblivion (2013 film) - Wikipedia, the free...

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    Oblivion is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name. The film was co-written, produced and ...


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