It's a Pandora's Box we cannot close: drones are here to stay.
Police use them, journalists use them, even the folks at Occupy Wall Street used them. The Federal Aviation Administration recently leapt through several flaming hoops to write rules and regulations for drone use in domestic skies.
With military operations coming to a close in Afghanistan (though drone use has gone up), defense contractors are going to look more and more often at local law enforcement, even corporations, to fill drone manufacturing quotas.
Check out this infographic from worldofmaps.com that diagrams exactly how we got here, and what we can expect:
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