{"id":18944,"date":"2015-09-26T06:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T11:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2015-09-26T06:31:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T11:31:35","slug":"the-economist-welcome-to-the-drone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18944","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: Welcome to the Drone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21666118-miniature-pilotless-aircraft-are-verge-becoming-commonplace-welcome\">Welcome to the Drone Age<\/a><br \/>\nMiniature, pilotless aircraft are on the verge of becoming commonplace <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some analysts think the number of drones made and sold around the world this year will exceed 1m. In their view, what is now happening to drones is similar to what happened to personal computers in the 1980s, when Apple launched the Macintosh and IBM the PS\/2, and such machines went from being hobbyists\u2019 toys to business essentials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: Welcome to the Drone Age Miniature, pilotless aircraft are on the verge of becoming commonplace Some analysts think the number of drones made and sold around the world this year will exceed 1m. In their view, what is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18945,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions\/18945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}