{"id":2468,"date":"2012-07-09T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T01:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2012-07-09T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T01:04:46","slug":"what-would-you-do-with-this-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/what-would-you-do-with-this-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would You Do With This Drone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not yet written the post I would like to put up. Doing that would be foolish. I just don&#8217;t believe in posting whining and sourness online. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I offer you <strong>autonomous agile aerial robots<\/strong>: <!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:526px; margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto\">\n<object width=\"526\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2012\/Blank\/VijayKumar_2012-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/VijayKumar_2012-embed.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1376&#038;lang=&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate;year=2012;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=inspired_by_nature;event=TED2012;tag=robots;tag=technology;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<p>I could use one of them to stand guard over our cherry tree. That&#8217;d be great to see one of these things chase the birds away!<\/p>\n<p>And a fleet of these autonomous agile aerial robots would be great for getting stuff into North Korea (for example).<\/p>\n<p>But I must tell you that, from the security and privacy angles, I sure don&#8217;t like what these things portend.<\/p>\n<p>And how long until drug cartels and (other) terrorists use them. Oh wow!<\/p>\n<p>So there you are &#8212; the autonomous agile aerial robot: yet another magnificent human invention awaiting helpful and harmful applications.<\/p>\n<p>How would you use one (fleet)?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not yet written the post I would like to put up. Doing that would be foolish. I just don&#8217;t believe in posting whining and sourness online. \ud83d\ude2f Instead, I offer you autonomous agile aerial robots:<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[513,424],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","category-youve-been-warned","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-DO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}