last night this guy was explaining to me his vision of a sky swarming with drones and I wanted to cry
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it’s not like he wanted to literally surveil or harm people, he just thought drone hegemony was technologically inevitable & he was stoked
he did convince me that the train is hurtling down the rails & this commercial drones thing is going to be insanely hard to stop
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it’s just that our reactions to this vision of the future were very different. he was excited, i was overwhelmed
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@sarahjeong The sense of "this is the technological future so just accept it" is always disconcerting. Ask: What would Ned Ludd do?
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@sarahjeong like the alternatives are a) nothing does those tasks b) those tasks are done by large, crewed aircraft -
@sarahjeong there's an argument to be made for a) in a lot of cases, but b) pretty much just pointlessly puts lives on the line -
yeah, I can get that, but his excitement about changing FAA regs and CA law terrified me. def feeling technophobia on this one
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@sarahjeong yeah, there are definitely going to be some things that need to be ironed out as uncrewed aircraft expand beyond pilot programs -
@sarahjeong I think the important thing is to try to minimize drones' exposure to crewed a/c until we understand what's likely to go wrong
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