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PULL! Good News for Skeet Shooters in Rural Virginia

There’ll be the breaking of the ancient Western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There’ll be phantoms, there’ll be fires on the road
And the white man dancing
— Leonard Cohen, The Future

An offshoot of Alphabet Inc.’s Google has become the first drone operator to receive government approval as an airline, an important step that gives it the legal authority to begin dropping products to actual customers.

The subsidiary, Wing, now has the same certifications

that smaller airlines receive from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation. It plans to begin routine deliveries of small consumer items in two rural communities in Virginia within months, the company said.

Herewith the Google vision of this machine of loving grace complete with grandma and her cute grandchildren getting about $79 worth of goods for breakfast somewhere in the suburbs of GoogleTopia:

… but if just blasting away at this new attempt to oversee your life you want to get a bit more high-tech:

Study these ways in which a global monopoly plans to insert itself deep inside you private life “for your own good.” There will be a test.

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  • jwm April 23, 2019, 8:27 AM

    Coffee needles and Googledrones.
    So when do we get drag queen story hour?
    I’ve had enough progress for one day, thank you.

    JWM

  • Walter Sobchak April 23, 2019, 10:28 AM

    What is wrong with just shooting it? I think bird shot is entirely appropriate.

  • ghostsniper April 23, 2019, 1:29 PM

    We have a hundred thousand anti-drone barriers around here, trees.
    You can’t even see our house on google maps.
    But yeah, birdshot. Intruders don’t get access to our property just because.
    Besides, Shannon likes the UPS truck, so we’ll stay with that, she can hear it coming a mile away, when it rounds the corner over in Bean Blossom, and gets all excited.

  • Jeff Brokaw April 24, 2019, 5:36 AM

    I do not recall ever wishing for a future where unmanned flying machines bring you stuff you bought without leaving the house.

    And yet here we are: “progress” … aka, embrace the future you troglodytes!

  • Flyover April 24, 2019, 5:46 AM

    Raptor capture best.
    Or maybe the “handbag of death,” come to think of it. (My late mother had one of those…)

  • Nobody Atall April 26, 2019, 8:21 AM

    There could be anything in that box …