| Why does anyone care what Google's Eric Schmidt thinks about drones? On this subject, he has no particular knowledge or experience that anyone else doesn't have. On this subject, his opinion is completely unremarkable and worth just about as much the opinion of an artist who draws graphics for a Cheerios box. When people whine about "powerful white males" having too much say in the media, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY MEAN. There is NO REASON we should be listening to Eric Schmidt's opinion on something he clearly knows next to nothing about. There is no reason to fill newspapers and web pages with his utterly unremarkable words about drones. If he were to talk about, say, search engines or advertising, then yes, it's useful. That's what he does for a living. But w/r/t to drones, he's just as dumb and fearful as 50% or more of the world out there. Moving further into his ideas, they are about as thoughtful and deep as a goldfish bowl. His analogy about an angry neighbor is laugh-out-loudable. An angry neighbor can do all matter of things today with all manner of tools following the dispute he mentions. Should we ban all of them, too? For example,
> "It's got to be regulated. [...] " Drones ARE regulated. http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/ http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/uas_faq/index.cfm?p... |