Reply #71

I probably had one of the first 500 email addresses in the world. I also remember telling my mother no one would ever use the visual web, because pictures take too long to load.

You are predicting future use using technical limitations in a technological system that is fully-funded and wholly engaged, e,.g. one that will grow in capability with virtually no obstacles.

UAVs will be used for everything they possibly can be used for. What many fail to comprehend -- or, setting aside the paranoid, many are willfully ignoring -- is that the technology is itself no more inherently evil than the telescope, radio, or airplane. Every technology can be misused; it is a societal pressure, not a scientific one, that dictates use.

I like radios that play music. I don't like radios that tell enemy mortar teams my position. Money spent on radio development could've been better spent on famine relief efforts in India in the 40's. But it wasn't; neither will UAV tech development money be spent anywhere else.