2014 trend: drones, Internet of tomorrow!
First, drones are cool. Very cool. And thanks to brands like Parrot, it's fully democratized. You put a camera on it and you can shoot awesome films, you can control it with your phone or a remonte controller. Fine. Drones are also a good PA: Countries use it to kill supposedly dangerous people (or people celebrating a wedding) . It become more interesting. Indeed, the machine will do something that a human should have done before. BUT the human is still acting, behind his computer screen, like in a video game, he controls the drone with a joystick. His personal assistant, M. drone, just obeys But here is the coolest part of the article: drones are the new Internet. Andreas Raptopoulos and his colleagues at Matternet are attempting to create a network of drones that operate like the internet, only for tangible objects. "The beauty of unmanned autonomous vehicles is [that there’s] no physical infrastructure. UAVs fly wherever there is air." and it's big!