4.7 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Imagine a world where flying robots watch over our borders, assist with search and rescue missions, and survey roads and pipelines. Sounds like science fiction, but in many parts of the country it's a reality. The Meme of Our Time - Alex Rivera; Commercial Drones - Missy Cummings; Drones Gone Wild; The Life of a Military Drone Pilot - Bruce Black; BookMark: Steve Roggenbuck; On Our Minds: Nadia Hashimi.
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0:18.6 | It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today, drones. Imagine a world where |
0:24.9 | flying robots watch over our borders, help search and rescue missions, survey roads, |
0:30.2 | and pipelines. That may sound like science fiction, but in fact it's already happening. And there's |
0:36.1 | more. Amazon's trying to test a fleet of delivery drones. |
0:40.2 | And Martha Stewart says she's in love |
0:42.2 | with her new drone camera. |
0:44.7 | So today we'll talk about how drones could change everything |
0:47.4 | from shopping to military combat. |
0:50.4 | One minute you're totally immersed in a war environment. |
0:53.5 | And the next minute, you drive home and somebody's upset of you because your pickup truck leaked oil in the driveway. |
0:59.1 | We'll hear stories from one of the guys behind the U.S. drone missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
1:04.3 | But first, the scary version of our drone future. |
1:10.3 | Every night on drones, we take you live from the front lines. |
1:13.6 | We're high-tech heroes. |
1:19.6 | We're cutting-edge technology. |
1:21.6 | Can blow the hell out of the bad guy. |
1:25.6 | That's a scene from Alex Rivera's film Sleep Dealer, |
1:30.3 | a sci-fi thriller set in Mexico in a very dystopian future. |
1:35.0 | In it, the border has been sealed tight and is policed by military drones. |
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