2. Questions from the Editor
I only know a few quotes so I’m going to use them
3. There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and
those who don’t know they don’t know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I recently wrote that I thought we are
in the early majority of users on the
diffusion of innovation curve and
getting ready to sail over the peak of
inflated expectations and fall into the
trough of disillusionment on the
Gartner Tech Curve.
Just how wrong am I.
4. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft.. and
the only one that can be mass produced by unskilled labour.
Werner Von Braun
Are drones really going to replace every
spotty youth in van?
Operating all weather and H24.
My money is on DHL and FedEx unmanning
their smaller delivery flights between
established hubs.
Not single DVD’s in CBD’s Discuss..
5. To light a candle is to cast a shadow
Ursula K. Le Guin
When the Paparazzi Project kicked off the open source low cost
autopilot in 2003 we might have imagined hundreds of unmanned
aircraft in the sky but not the thousands that we see today.
The very long shadow being cast by RPAS operators around the
world is that of inappropriate behavior. Flying in controlled
airspace and in a dangerous manner, we have all seen the
YouTube clips. Will the carrot or stick work.
What will your companies do in the next two years to help solve
this problem?