This, I did not know:
…UK drones have been used in almost 350 attacks in Afghanistan since 2008 (that’s a drone strike every four days), and recently moved to double the size of its fleet of reaper drones.
James Bridle thinks it is something more people should know about and has created an Instagram profile called Dronestagram where he posts Google Maps satellite images of the places where recent attacks have happened.
Looking back at predictions that seem to have been far of the mark is diverting entertainment.
Take these French visualisations of what like would be like in the 21st century…
Heath-Robinson flying machines… Sky cops! Crazy! how wrong they were…
Oh wait – here’s the world’s first electric-powered multi-copter flight in Germany…
So ten years from now we’ll be hovering to work surrounded by a small cloud of drones recording the experiencing it, Tweeting it and jamming the electronic recording and snooping devices of others… or something.
Alan Patrick has some more serious observations about the “internet of flying things” etc. over on his blog.