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Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
- noonespecial 12y agoGuns (and crossbows), capitalism, sailboats and printing presses all did the same thing. Democratized personal power and autonomy. I'd say the printing press did more to defeat tyranny than the gun. We should be worried about the "right to keep and bear technology". Its in the same group of things. If this gets locked away by multinationals and "rights management" schemes, we're in trouble. Drones or not.
- nkurz 12y agoThere's an interesting Mexican science fiction film that explores some of the future described in this piece: http://alexrivera.com/project/sleep-dealer/ http://alexrivera.com/project/sleep-dealer/ Some discussion of those themes: http://fpif.org/science_fiction_from_below/ http://fpif.org/science_fiction_from_below/ I found it flawed, but brilliant. It deserved more attention than it got.
- sampo 12y agoAlso, Elysium, kind of.