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500 Intel Drones To Replace Fireworks Above Travis Air Force Base For Fourth of July (techcrunch.com)
The Fourth of July is a little different today at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. From a report: Instead of fireworks, 500 Intel Shooting Star drones will take to the sky to perform an aerial routine in honor of the holiday and the base's 75th anniversary. These are the same drones that preformed at Disney World, the Super Bowl and the Olympics. One person controls the fleet of drones thanks to a sophisticated control platform that pre-plans the route of each drone. Intel engineers told me that the system can control an unlimited amount of drones. In the version I saw, the drones used GPS to stay in place and the drones lacked any collision detection sensors.
It's not a nanny state, it's a corporate-military state. Intel showing off its military technology. Think of it as the modern equivalent of artillery (which fireworks were meant to represent).
Just as bad, but differently bad.