One last dispatch from our dystopian present: MKBHD has a new video with the clickbait title, “The Truth about Drone Deliveries!” I found it worth watching, if only because it’s the first time I’ve seen a vision of aerial drones bringing you stuff where the service seems potentially useful rather than exclusively dangerous and scary. I still find these deeply upsetting, but I can see how under Silicon Valley logic they might also be inevitable.
The big miss in the video is that the only possible downside Marques sees fit to mention is light pollution. Ummm… 1984 would like to have a word. Every police force in the world is going to want their own little fleet of these bad boys! Talk about a parole officer’s dream. We’re like five years away from a droid reading you your Miranda rights. (Already when we drive to our pediatrician’s we always pass a programmable road sign that flashes between two messages: “WELCOME TO BEVERLY HILLS” and “POLICE DRONE IN USE”.)
