192 Future Uses for Flying Drones

1 billion drones in world by 2030, US futurist Thomas Frey says

I have a drone.. makes for an excellent photographic platform.. good times.

The use of drones in Planet Earth II gave some spectacular footage that could probably not have been obtained by any other means.

dv said:

The use of drones in Planet Earth II gave some spectacular footage that could probably not have been obtained by any other means.

not a duocopter?

Dropbear said:

dv said:

The use of drones in Planet Earth II gave some spectacular footage that could probably not have been obtained by any other means.

not a duocopter?

A Duocopter is a kind of drone.

Tau.Neutrino said:

192 Future Uses for Flying Drones

1 billion drones in world by 2030, US futurist Thomas Frey says

The Internet says there are over 1 billion motor vehicles in the world now.

I can’t see how 1 billion drones will have a greater impact on the world than 1 million motor vehicles.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

192 Future Uses for Flying Drones

1 billion drones in world by 2030, US futurist Thomas Frey says

The Internet says there are over 1 billion motor vehicles in the world now.

I can’t see how 1 billion drones will have a greater impact on the world than 1 million motor vehicles.

… where 1 million = 1 billion

dv said:

Dropbear said:

dv said:

The use of drones in Planet Earth II gave some spectacular footage that could probably not have been obtained by any other means.

not a duocopter?

A Duocopter is a kind of drone.

not with a dude sitting in the cockpit

The Rev Dodgson said:

… where 1 million = 1 billion

I see we have an engineer with us.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

192 Future Uses for Flying Drones

1 billion drones in world by 2030, US futurist Thomas Frey says

The Internet says there are over 1 billion motor vehicles in the world now.

I can’t see how 1 billion drones will have a greater impact on the world than 1 million motor vehicles.

Freedom of movement

Speed, getting there by line of sight

Accessibility, getting to sides of cliff faces for rescue

lots of others

Dropbear said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

… where 1 million = 1 billion

I see we have an engineer with us.

*snort *

I think your comment, Rev, misses the meaning of distruption.
The number of cars per capita has not increased all that much in the last 13 years: they play basically the same role as they did in 2004.

The author predicts that the number of drones in operation will increase, over the next 13 years, by a factor of about 100, and that they will be playing many more roles. Obviously this is more disruptive, in a neutral economic or social sense, than “there’s still about a billion cars”.

Dropbear said:

dv said:

Dropbear said:

not a duocopter?

A Duocopter is a kind of drone.

not with a dude sitting in the cockpit

If you mean a manned Duocopter then I’m not sure you could have got all these close shots.

dv said:

Dropbear said:

dv said:

A Duocopter is a kind of drone.

not with a dude sitting in the cockpit

If you mean a manned Duocopter then I’m not sure you could have got all these close shots.

I never saw it … I’m sure it wasn’t as good as the book though.

There’s an aid group in Uganda or similar that are bombing the locals with HIV, malaria and TB medications using drones.

poikilotherm said:

There’s an aid group in Uganda or similar that are bombing the locals with HIV, malaria and TB medications using drones.

That was a bit alarming til you got to “medications”

poikilotherm said:

There’s an aid group in Uganda or similar that are bombing the locals with HIV, malaria and TB medications using drones.

Sounds expensive when they can just use chemtrails…

Divine Angel said:

poikilotherm said:

There’s an aid group in Uganda or similar that are bombing the locals with HIV, malaria and TB medications using drones.

Sounds expensive when they can just use chemtrails…

I think I saw some hick farmers testing that out here, were using it on grape vines though, the fools.

dv said:

I think your comment, Rev, misses the meaning of distruption.
The number of cars per capita has not increased all that much in the last 13 years: they play basically the same role as they did in 2004.

The author predicts that the number of drones in operation will increase, over the next 13 years, by a factor of about 100, and that they will be playing many more roles. Obviously this is more disruptive, in a neutral economic or social sense, than “there’s still about a billion cars”.

I’m not talking about the last 13 years, I’m talking about the period when car use was growing rapidly. They had a far greater effect on people’s lives than drones will, even if there are 1 billion of them.

In addition to billions of cars there are billions of ships, billions of planes.

All have had an impact imo.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

I think your comment, Rev, misses the meaning of distruption.
The number of cars per capita has not increased all that much in the last 13 years: they play basically the same role as they did in 2004.

The author predicts that the number of drones in operation will increase, over the next 13 years, by a factor of about 100, and that they will be playing many more roles. Obviously this is more disruptive, in a neutral economic or social sense, than “there’s still about a billion cars”.

I’m not talking about the last 13 years, I’m talking about the period when car use was growing rapidly. They had a far greater effect on people’s lives than drones will, even if there are 1 billion of them.

Well I agree.

I wonder if delivery drones will ring your smartphone when they have arrived?

Tau.Neutrino said:

I wonder if delivery drones will ring your smartphone when they have arrived?

Seems more likely that a central system will do that. cf when your uber is about to arrive, the system sends you a message: the message doesn’t come from the car.

Dropbear said:

dv said:

Dropbear said:

not with a dude sitting in the cockpit

If you mean a manned Duocopter then I’m not sure you could have got all these close shots.

I never saw it … I’m sure it wasn’t as good as the book though.

Should’ve … fucken unreal

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Kevin Bloody Wilson wrote a song about it which was Kerry Packer’s fave.
Stick that fucking drone up your arse.