Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

‘Drone warfare is coming’

Daniel Suarez explains how flying robots are going to change our world for ever

issue 04 August 2012

Quite soon, it will be impossible to ignore the fact that a revolution is taking place. You’ll look up one day and the skies will be full of flying robots: pilotless drones or UAVS (Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles) — all programmed to carry out different tasks. There’ll be security drones circling shops, streaming video back to base, Royal Mail drones flying parcels to and fro.

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