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   From: droleary@8usenet2013.subsume.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Walter Bushell  wrote:   
      
   > In article   
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   >  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, 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?   
      
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