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You have to love technology sometimes, and admittedly sometimes you have to hate it.
I love it because if I want to take the camper for a month or two and go to my favorite camping spot up north I can do so and only have to take a handful of things with me to feel as comfortable as I am at home.
A phone, solar generator, wifi hotspot, solar panel, and laptop are all I need for my wife and I to spend a couple of months communing with nature while getting all my work done.
On the other side of the coin, you have technological advancements that make you wonder how we aren’t either doomed to eradication or out-and-out slaves of the government. There are far too many pieces of tech that can be modified and used for hateful and horrible purposes.
Your cell phone can be used to track you is a big example. Even things that we assume are going to be fun or are supposed to be fun can be easily used for dangerous purposes.
When I was younger, I used to tinker around with those remote control helicopters. You couldn’t take them too far, but they were great fun. Not a whole lot of damage you could cause with one unless the batteries on the remote died and it crashed.
But the next generation of the remote control helicopter is of course the drone. I see varying sizes and degrees of these things on sale almost everywhere.
With these newer drones, you can take them far greater distances than you ever imagined. This poses a surveillance problem as someone can easily hover a drone over your backyard.
Also, two scientists realized something horrible and have issued a dire warning regarding drones. They were sitting around hypothesizing, which people of that field are often seen doing, that a personal drone can easily be modified to attach an explosive to the body of the drone.
We built an AI-steered homing/killer drone in just a few hours
I thought it would be fun to build a drone that chases you around as a game. It just uses an AI object detection model to find people in the frame, and then the drone is programmed to fly towards this at full speed… pic.twitter.com/p5ijBiHPxz
— Luis Wenus (@luiswenus) March 2, 2024
Once a drone has an explosive attached to it, the person in control can easily fly this bomb into anyone they want to.
In their experimentation in what was originally the two trying to design an innocent game; they figured out that it would only take someone of even limited skill a short amount of time to turn a normal commercially available drone into a flying bomb.
Here’s the scary part, there aren’t exactly anti-drone systems out there for protection of public spaces. This means that at any moment, some terrorist with a drone can affix a bomb to it and fly it into a group of innocent people.
This is why we need to have more restrictions on certain technology.
