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There will be countermeasures as well. Whether a bird is fake or real, breaking into a house can still be detected. I imagine we'll also see small robots that

There will be countermeasures as well. Whether a bird is fake or real, breaking into a house can still be detected. I imagine we'll also see small robots that scurry into your garage when you open the door and whose one job will be to open the door later for thieves. That is probably already possible. So we'll need intelligent security cameras in garages too. Drones that crash through a window and set the place on fire - I don't know what we'll do about that one. But anticipating and solving such problems would make an interesting startup.

PhantomGremlin 7y ago
Drones that crash through a window and set the place on fire - I don't know what we'll do about that one. There are various window films that can do an excellent job of making it quite hard to break a window. But they're currently quite expensive. E.g,: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/home-window-solutions-us/ https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/home-window-solutions-us/ (sorry for previous bad link, 3M website bozos make it hard to get a sane URL) I live in a "stick house" and it would be quite easy to set it on fire from the outside. Cedar siding, shrubs near the walls, etc. No need to crash through a window. Edit: I forgot to mention a roof made of "kindling". It wore out and I replaced it with a composition roof, but in Oregon it's trendy to have a "shake" roof. If you've ever examined a shake you will know it's just a very dry piece of wood (at least in summer, in winter it's very wet). Fortunately we don't live in such a dystopian world ... yet, at least not in most parts of the USA.
- Scoundreller 7y ago
  > If you've ever examined a shake you will know it's just a very dry piece of wood (at least in summer, in winter it's very wet). Then there’s the varnishes and oils that you apply to repel water, which just makes it more flammable.

PhantomGremlin 7y ago

Drones that crash through a window and set the place on fire - I don't know what we'll do about that one. There are various window films that can do an excellent job of making it quite hard to break a window. But they're currently quite expensive. E.g,: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/home-window-solutions-us/ https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/home-window-solutions-us/ (sorry for previous bad link, 3M website bozos make it hard to get a sane URL) I live in a "stick house" and it would be quite easy to set it on fire from the outside. Cedar siding, shrubs near the walls, etc. No need to crash through a window. Edit: I forgot to mention a roof made of "kindling". It wore out and I replaced it with a composition roof, but in Oregon it's trendy to have a "shake" roof. If you've ever examined a shake you will know it's just a very dry piece of wood (at least in summer, in winter it's very wet). Fortunately we don't live in such a dystopian world ... yet, at least not in most parts of the USA.

Scoundreller 7y ago
> If you've ever examined a shake you will know it's just a very dry piece of wood (at least in summer, in winter it's very wet). Then there’s the varnishes and oils that you apply to repel water, which just makes it more flammable.