Dutch artist Ruben Pater discusses drones and survival in the modern age:
The Drone Survival Guide first came out at the end of 2013. What do you see as the big changes in drone technology over the last year (2014)?
Now that every industrialized country in the world is buying drones, there is money to invest in future applications and possibilities. Boeing is developing a solar-powered drone called "Solar Eagle" that can stay in the air for five years, like a permanent drone. China and the U.S. are developing hypersonic drones that can go 25 times the speed of sound. At that kind of speed humans are too slow to respond, so you need even faster autonomous systems to defend yourself. It becomes a big problem when humans are left out of the loop. How does the system know an enemy drone from a commercial airliner? For me that is one of the worries with current advancements.