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Showing posts with label drones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drones. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

Cartoons: it doesn't take long

Today's collection of cartoons talks about insidious threats that have or had a potential for proliferation.

Measles.
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image: cartoon by Pat Bagley
Pat Bagley, The Week
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Drug-toting drones.
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image: cartoon by Milt Priggee
Milt Priggee, The Week
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The wealth of the 1%.
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image: cartoon by Steve Sack
Steve Sack, The Week
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Red-light cameras. (These may be going away due to popular demand.)
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image: cartoon by Scott Stantis
Scott Stantis, The Week
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-- Marge


Friday, December 06, 2013

Cartoons: Amazon drones

Have you heard?  Headlines this week reported "Amazon unveils futuristic plan: Delivery by drone."  Other companies plan to do the same: "Amazon is not alone: UPS, Google also testing delivery drones." What could happen?  This collection of cartoons at Mercury News explores the question; here are some samples.
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image: cartoon by Dan Wasserman about Amazon delivery drones
Dan Wasserman, Mercury News
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image: cartoon by David Fitzsimmons about Amazon delivery drones
David Fitzsimmons, Mercury News
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image: cartoon by John Cole about Amazon delivery drones
John Cole, Mercury News
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image: cartoon by Mike Luckovich about Amazon delivery drones
Mike Luckovich, Mercury News
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image: cartoon by Milt Priggee about Amazon delivery drones
Milt Priggee, Mercury News
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My question is -- will we soon need air traffic controllers for drones?  They appear to be multiplying.

-- Marge