XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science
From: YourName@YourISP.com
In article ,
Doc O'Leary wrote:
> In article ,
> Walter Bushell wrote:
> > In article
> > ,
> > Doc O'Leary wrote:
> >
> > > In article ,
> > > Robert Bannister wrote:
> > >
> > > > I suppose we would all have to have locks and bars or maybe even
> > > > shutters on our windows to keep flying burglars out.
> > >
> > > It's definitely something you'd have to consider. The whole notion of
> > > doing a lot of flying around buildings may be a non-starter these days
> > > based on the fears of terrorism alone. You can even expect self-driving
> > > cars to be used for nefarious purposes. That's one of the big things a
> > > lot of utopian sci-fi fails to understand.
> >
> > But drones may be unavoidable.
>
> As will their consequences, both good and bad. Right now, they're
> mainly used to do bad things, which poisons the well. Or, perhaps, the
> problem is that despots use them,
Yep, like those despots in the US Government. ;-)
> so it is inevitable that their use
> gets associated with bad things. I mean, what are the odds of you
> reading a story that starts:
>
> "They heard the unmistakable sound of the drone only after it came over
> the hills, and everyone in the park immediately began running."
>
> . . . and ends with it delivering ice cream to all the happy children?
It may not be ice cream, but if Amazon (and others) get their way,
drones will be delivering lots of other small items. I seem to remember
a Christmas-themed episode (possibly the old UK puppet TV series
"Thunderbirds") where a drone did deliver a load of presents to
children at somewhere like an orphanage.
There was also a news item somewhere fairly recently about a small
drone being used to help find a person lost and injured in the
wilderness.
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