{"id":23999,"date":"2016-03-26T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/fear-not-the-drone-apocalpyse"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:40","slug":"fear-not-the-drone-apocalpyse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/fear-not-the-drone-apocalpyse","title":{"rendered":"Fear Not The Drone Apocalpyse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fear-not-the-drone-apocalpyse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the apocalypse comes, it won\u2019t do so on four rotors. Drones, especially drones-as-we-know-them\u2014the affordable, commercially available quadcopters\u2014are only really engines of their own destruction. Zoltan Istvan, transhumanist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/vote-zoltan-if-you-want-become-cyborg\">candidate for President<\/a>, wrote today that the American constitution is unprepared for the challenges of swarming robots. With all due I respect, I couldn\u2019t possibly disagree more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-second-amendment-isnt-prepared-for-a-3D-printed-drone-army\">The Second Amendment Isn\u2019t Prepared for a 3D-Printed Drone Army<\/a>\u201d, Istvan argues, and vividly sets a scene of total despair:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/fear-not-drone-apocalpyse\">http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/fear-not-drone-apocalpyse<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the apocalypse comes, it won\u2019t do so on four rotors. Drones, especially drones-as-we-know-them\u2014the affordable, commercially available quadcopters\u2014are only really engines of their own destruction. Zoltan Istvan, transhumanist candidate for President, wrote today that the American constitution is unprepared for the challenges of swarming robots. With all due I respect, I couldn\u2019t possibly disagree more. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1488,5,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-drones","category-geopolitics","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67906,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23999\/revisions\/67906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}