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You just need your own set of insect-sized drones to find and destroy other insect-sized drones.
by leef 13y ago
You just need your own set of insect-sized drones to find and destroy other insect-sized drones.
- beloch 13y agoThis 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.