[KirinDave]

It's might become harder than you think.

Especially modern stuff. I've been talking with a lot of hobbyist drone owners lately and several folks are working on fascinating projects using a fleet of semi-autonomous lightweight fixed wing and quad drones along with modern autonomous aircraft techniques.

These things are small (you could hold them one handed on a crowded bus), fast (even the quads break 140mph), can be quiet (especially the fixed wings) and have cellphones.

One of the projects I saw was proving that an automated drone network could create a full coverage, high resolution video coverage of a parking lot even with drones having to leave the site to get fresh batteries.

They're working for a team that has a DARPA grant, so...

[zaroth]

I'm surprised we don't see a lot more of this, but I assume it 10 years it will be extremely pervasive.

Drones which can zoom into an area at 100 mph plus and establish a complete surveillance perimeter. They could dock on telephone poles throughout a city. I imagine "calling 911" could dispatch these monitors to your location in under 60 seconds on average.

Drones were a lot more prominent in the recent hurricane response, I think it's the tip of the iceberg.

[euroclydon]

Interesting, but I’m sure there are significant efforts in anti-drone technology.