Is there any law against, or objection to, using paint-ball-gun-equipped-drones in a campus wide game of "Assassination"?

Given the general, somewhat hostile tenor of the calls and comments to what I found was a very informed and fascinating interview, I would suggest to Mr Anderson that he may want to think about jettisoning the name "drones," and calling his tools/toys/products, planes with brains instead. Might neutralize some of that angst out there in the initiated....

Chen is so right. I's too bad none of the interviewers ever call them on this -I'm most surprised Brian let it go right by. We hear the refrain over and over again and it goes unchallenged. It's the same as hearing about jobs American's won't do. Perhaps it's not that they won't do them, but cannot afford to. In an ideal world, if one cannot fill a position the salary of that position would increase until it is met. Now, for industrialists, we have the third world instead.

Who is this out of touch privileged male who says "at $1000 each everybody can buy them." My NYU masters degree educated husband just got laid off due to "restructuring" and we cannot even afford the ink for our printer so that our children can properly do their homework!!!!!!!!

Note to Brian & show producers: You should consider having as a future guest Alex Rivera-- director of Sleep Dealer, a sci-fi film about the future high-tech economy fo Tiajuana, in which drones play a big role. Rivera has also done several art projects using drones on the US/Mexico border.
http://alexrivera.com/
http://sleepdealer.com/Landing.html
http://lowdrone.com/

3-D printer guns have famously been created. http://bit.ly/Vcs5CS

Wait! Isn't 3D printing the new "Friendster"??

These guys always talk about not being able to find engineers here, unfortunately they never say they can't find them at a price they are willing to pay! Minimum wage.

I want Werner Herzog to get a drone & fly it around that pillar in the Cave of Forgotten Dreams that he couldn't see the back of!

Is it just me or does this guy sound like an enormous shyster??

How much are workers at Tijuana shops paid---and how many of the women who have low level positions at such places are likely to die in their shadows? The human cost of manufacturing these drones (as virtually all manufacturing in Northern Mexico has proven to be) must be tremendously high. I'm horrified by how uncritical of technology and globalization is Chris Anderson, a "journalist" on the subject.

Isn't the "talent problem" mythic?

Much as I hate MIL drones with guns, these are pretty harmless, except possibly as very slow RPG's (just a PG).

Will his drones will be airplane type or the newer multi-roter helicopter type? Nova did a story about the use of "DIY drones" to spy on celebrities or their neighbors by mounting a camera on a RD helicopter?

Funny - someone was talking to some fashion designers last week about being able to work in smaller amounts so thus local industry winds up being better for smaller entrepreneurs - so everything need not go to the East Asia or Asia region - could be promising

Mini-drones in conjunction with cell phone GPS are gonna be programmed by CIA-run #NYPD, et al. to track every step, video every action, record every word, perhaps even assassinate US citizens. We are frogs hopping about in the stovepot soon to boil ...

How long can these go-pro drones that can follow a windsurfer around stay airborne before they run out of energy? Are they gas or battery operated?

Now I know why the Founders gave us the Second Amendment. I will need a gun to shoot down any Personal Drone that I find hovering over my backyard, observing my swimming pool.

Lock and load!

OK, "not weaponized", but how won't these KILL privacy?

How is a "DIY drone" different from a sophisticated, radio-controlled model airplane like you might read about in Model Airplane News magazine and buy kits for in hobby shops or hobby web vendors?