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I strongly agree with #1. If you really don't want to live in a society with insect-sized drones doing, well, whatever they want, you're not going to have much

by iguana 13y ago

I strongly agree with #1. If you really don't want to live in a society with insect-sized drones doing, well, whatever they want, you're not going to have much choice in a couple of decades (at most). #2 would be nearly impossible to enforce.

sanderjd 13y ago
Enforcing things like #2 is what the press is for. Write a law, try to find instances of the authorities breaking it (or look for whistleblowers!), cause a stink. The difficulty of the second and third parts of that formula shouldn't be a reason to not write the law (presuming it's a good one).
- iguana 13y ago
  ...and then your car gets blown up, and they call it an "accident". The press is, and has been, the 4th branch of the government, so I would really hope that our last refuge isn't found on the pages of CNN.
leef 13y ago
You just need your own set of insect-sized drones to find and destroy other insect-sized drones.
- beloch 13y ago
  This is a very Diamond Age notion. (In Neal Stephenson's book, microscopic robots capable of everything from surveillance to entering humans and destroying them from within are an ever-present part of the atmosphere in parts of the earth. Many are there simply to hold the others in check. A fog sometimes results when a battle erupts between groups of drone owners.) A balance of drones and anti-drones of increasingly smaller and harder to detect sizes does seem quite possible at this point. Certainly, drones are going to get progressively smaller and cheaper and could soon be used by practically anyone to spy on anyone else. Children's toys (e.g. RC helicopters with cameras) have already gone past a 1950's CIA agent's wildest dreams. Either anti-drone defenses are going to develop to keep pace or we're going to have to fundamentally change our notions surrounding privacy.

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I strongly agree with #1. If you really don't want to live in a society with insect-sized drones doing, well, whatever they want, you're not going to have much

by iguana 13y ago

sanderjd 13y ago
Enforcing things like #2 is what the press is for. Write a law, try to find instances of the authorities breaking it (or look for whistleblowers!), cause a stink. The difficulty of the second and third parts of that formula shouldn't be a reason to not write the law (presuming it's a good one).
- iguana 13y ago
  ...and then your car gets blown up, and they call it an "accident". The press is, and has been, the 4th branch of the government, so I would really hope that our last refuge isn't found on the pages of CNN.
leef 13y ago
You just need your own set of insect-sized drones to find and destroy other insect-sized drones.
- beloch 13y ago
  This is a very Diamond Age notion. (In Neal Stephenson's book, microscopic robots capable of everything from surveillance to entering humans and destroying them from within are an ever-present part of the atmosphere in parts of the earth. Many are there simply to hold the others in check. A fog sometimes results when a battle erupts between groups of drone owners.) A balance of drones and anti-drones of increasingly smaller and harder to detect sizes does seem quite possible at this point. Certainly, drones are going to get progressively smaller and cheaper and could soon be used by practically anyone to spy on anyone else. Children's toys (e.g. RC helicopters with cameras) have already gone past a 1950's CIA agent's wildest dreams. Either anti-drone defenses are going to develop to keep pace or we're going to have to fundamentally change our notions surrounding privacy.