Here Come the Drones クリス・アンダーソン：わが愛しのドローン

by Chris Anderson, 菅野 楽章 (Translator)

かつてインターネットが軍事目的で開発され、わたしたちの生活を大きく変えたように、ドローン（自律式無人ヘリコプター）が世界を変えるかもしれない。これまで高価だったドローンは、安価に作ることが可能になり、GPSをはじめ様々な機能を搭載でき、スマホで操作できる便利さも兼ねそなえている。US版『WIRED』編集長クリス・アンダーソンは、ドローンの民主化によって、ビジネスが大きく変わると信じている。その変化は、既に農業や絶滅品種の保護など数多くの現場を変えている……。
（US版「WIRED」2012年7月号掲載）

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 25, 2012

About the author

Chris Anderson was named in April 2007 to the "Time 100," the newsmagazine's list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001, and he has led the magazine to six National Magazine Award nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for General Excellence in 2005 and 2007. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Long Tail, which is based on an influential 2004 article published in Wired, and runs a blog on the subject at www.thelongtail.com. Previously, he was at The Economist, where he served as US Business Editor, Asia Business Editor; and Technology Editor. He started The Economist's Internet coverage in 1994 and directed its initial web strategy. Anderson's media career began at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science, where he served in several editorial capacities. Prior to that he was a physics researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab."