Response on Facial Recognition Drone Gives Your Selfie Stick Wings

Are we serious? What next I ask? I must admit that I was a little turned off when the phrase “selfie” was coined. As if that was not enough, now we have selfie drones.

Am I the only person raising alarm bells? I mean, there are starving persons in Africa, millions of displaced people in Europe and the Middle East and right in America a myriad of problematic issues that no one seems to have handle on. Yet we see merit in developing drone powered selfie sticks.

Pardon me for being a simpleton and a yes I am all for technological advancement, but at times I think we take it too far. Let’s keep it real. The cell phones are good, the remote, the dishwasher and even the lazy boy couches. But we would all readily admit that they have come with a host of attendant problems – one such being that they take away from the “naturalness” of life.

Have we not come to realize also that these innovative ideas have had a debilitating effect on our traditional areas of employment, for example the security camera replacing the security guard. I fear that with the advent of the drone selfie stick, the day of the professional photographer is numbered.

Finally, has IoT group done due process in considering the safety implications of operating another propeller driven autonomous craft in our already cluttered air spaces? The America Federal Aviation Authority (AFAA) is already struggling to enact an appropriate legislation to safe guard their airspaces and by extension protect human lives.

I’ve realized that in our technologically intoxicated era, this innovation may be hailed as yet another testimony of mans greatness and his unique ability to manipulate, for his enjoyment, the environment around him. I wish to however declare myself as the voice of reason and humbly ask; is this technological advancement necessary? Would it add value to your everyday living? Ask yourselves these questions.

Reference:

http://www.gizmag.com/roam-e-drone-selfie-facial-recognition/42600/