Drones of contention

• Autores: Jeff Hecht
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3040, 2015, págs. 26-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Attitudes to civilian drones are going through a familiar cycle: first they were welcomed, potentially revolutionizing delivery, newsgathering and security. Then prices crashed and a consumer craze took off, and now they mainly make headlines as a nuisance and threat to aircraft. Although the misuse of new technology is familiar, it's impossible to anticipate all its forms. Alexander Graham Bell didn't think about telemarketers turning the phone into a nuisance. Email creators didn't imagine spam. And when weather balloons were first used in 1896, no one thought that nearly a century later US truck driver Larry Walters would tether a few dozen to his patio chair and fly into controlled airspace. Here, Hecht argues it is a flight of fancy to believe that the inexpert public's craze for remote-control craft won't spark tougher new rules.