The subject of drones made it to the mainstream sometime last year, and today they are a source of fascination, as well as of disagreement. This 'future technology' is so new to us that we don't quite know what place it ought to have in our lives.
Even as a libertarian who believes property rights and nothing more should dictate policy, I have to wonder how drones will allow people to accomplish undetected trespasses and spying. But if there's one thing that convinces me that drones can be dealt with by the free market, it's the belief that eventually, everyone's going to find a way around whatever obstacles exist. When a government prohibits something, black markets emerge. That's just human nature. I am fairly confident that anti-drone technology will also develop, to counteract the entrance of drones in just about anywhere. It is from such use of technologies that a new order of things will come about.
Another important thing about drones isn't so much the security or privacy aspect, but the way it reveals the degree of awareness of regular folks, as to how the government is controlling or butting in their lives. Not to mention messing up these lives. Will people be able to connect their worries about drone snooping and warfare, to their worries as to how somehow, currencies continue to devaluate, prices continue to rise, and financial authorities seem to be unable to do anything about it? Will people be driven to oppose central banking with the same fervor as declaring a much easier-to-understand 'right to privacy'? Will they take precautions such as buying gold?
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