Comment Re:They Already figured that out (Score 1) 157
I agree with you 100%, but I've seen far too many situations where nobody did the right thing until all the wrong things had been tried five times each. And to be fair, I was thinking more of the payload than the drone. The trend I'm trying (badly) to describe wouldn't have to involve anything mechanical. One example: we've mapped the human genome. That's the easy part. Even at our current "baby steps" level, there have been a couple of custom designed cures for genetic diseases and a few fake wolves...maybe a fake mammoth soon. As the pace of innovation increases, though, I don't think it will take long before some angry genius with a garage lab designs a disease to fit a particular genetic profile, or a kind of rabies transmissible by non-fertile mosquitoes, or some other horror. I could see particular populations being targeted, or perhaps even certain individuals. At the moment, this is just science fiction, but the technology isn't hard to visualize. It's more on the scale of workable nuclear fusion than faster-than-light travel.
What worries me most is that the trend you describe will probably take the option of a limited terrorist action off the table, and makes something truly catastrophic more likely. Meanwhile, as a society we seem committed to driving more and more people to the point where they feel they have nothing to lose. A lot of Trump voters don't seriously expect him to make things better...they'll be happy enough if he just breaks the system and wipes the smile off the faces of the smug pricks running things.
