On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote:
Now, as you note, drones may give everyone a tool to gum up the works. > Once the hummingbird drones become armed and readily available, at least on the black market, as I assume will happen before too long, they will be a painful lesson for humanity in dealing with the unintended consequences of technological change. A LENR powerplant will not be necessary for them to be dismayingly dangerous. My guess as to the general gist of the resolution that will be worked out: detailed tracking of inventories and the transit and purchase of supplies, along with records of the purchasers, backed by a vast international database of identities, sort of like Facebook but in the hands of governments. That in turn will bring in other unintended consequences of the kind addressed in dystopian science fiction. Eric
