{"id":5533,"date":"2012-08-08T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2013-08-28T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T10:36:21","slug":"the-future-of-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-future-of-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/080512_2316_TheFutureOf1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re watching the beginnings of a revolution in drone technology. Owen Bowcott and Nick Hopkins looked at what its future could be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They could be used in search and rescue missions by going places that humans can&#8217;t go such as ash clouds.<\/li>\n<li>Currently forest fires aren&#8217;t doused at night and are allowed to burn. Drones could continue to fight fires overnight.<\/li>\n<li>Drones no bigger than a hummingbird are being equipped with cameras for crowd monitoring purposes.<\/li>\n<li>One company produces drones that are disguised as birds which fly around and scare away geese at airports so that they don&#8217;t get sucked into engines.<\/li>\n<li>Biological drones are being developed as well. This involves implanting electrodes into the brains of birds to control them.<\/li>\n<li>A Welsh developmental agency wants a drone that could count sheep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article is much wider in scope and looks at where the drone market currently is, and what&#8217;s needed to help it fulfill some of its early potential. The drone revolution could be just as transformative as the computing one, and if you&#8217;re interested in finding out the full picture, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/aug\/04\/future-drones\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/aug\/04\/future-drones\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/08\/assorted-links-528.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re watching the beginnings of a revolution in drone technology. Owen Bowcott and Nick Hopkins looked at what its future could be: They could be used in search and rescue missions by going places that humans can&#8217;t go such as ash clouds. Currently forest fires aren&#8217;t doused at night and are allowed to burn. Drones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-drones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/080512_2316_TheFutureOf1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9544,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/9544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}