Here Come The Drones

OUR NEWEST HIGH TECH TOY IS DRONES. Before long, millions of us will have one, because some corporation or other will get rich by brainwashing us into believing that a home drone is the coolest thing since sliced bread, which it might well be. (I'm sure I'll find out)However, owing to their increasing numbers and resulting airborne congestion, drones are starting too crash in undesirable locations, like the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York and downtown Chicago streets. Within a year or two they'll be crashing into buildings and people and streets regularly, as divorcing couples use them to deliver ultimatums and spy, and teenagers have dogfights and do other fun but weird things with them, and America-hating terrorists transport bombs with them. So, they need to be regulated, and probably, therefore, policed, which is going to be a major hassle. I would trade in smart phones and drones for a colony on Mars in a heartbeat, even though, back in the nineteen sixties, I fantasized about all three, longingly. Here comes more big government. Drone regulation. You can hear the republicans screaming now. Let 'em fly in freedom! Or maybe our conservative libertarian friends will categorize drones with recreational drugs and the female body - needful of regulation. Either way, keep looking up, and be prepared at all times, to duck.