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Over at the NY Times, Maureen Dowd's concerns about behemoths Facebook, Google, and Amazon patrolling the skies over our heads with fleets of drones are valid IMO. Referring to a proposed movie script addressing the issue of drones making pilots obsolete, Dowd writes:
But
the producer is missing a more original twist. Instead of unmanned
planes controlled by terrorists, the drones could be an army of angry
birds amassed by our computer overlords, Google, Facebook and Amazon.
Every time one of the tech giants reveals it is venturing into the drone
business, the rationale is presented purely as smart business, a benign
and even benevolent expansion.
Amazon
will be able to drop packages right on your lawn, or even your head.
With fleets of solar-powered jet drones, Google and Facebook would be
able to expand their customer bases by offering online access to poor
and remote areas of the world devoid of telephone wires or cellphone
towers.
Read Dowd's entire column here.
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