the corner office

Setting aside the whole Internet and computer-in-a-wristwatch thing, there are two advances, I think, which will one day soon cause us to wake up and think 'by golly, we're really living in science fiction now'.

The first of these is the rise of driverless cars. The second is the use of drones - not just military, but civilian, and commercial. This is an interesting article about ways in which drones are being used around the world (but not in the USA, which despite having a reputation for being a happy-go-lucky capitalist free-for-all, isn't): US lags as commercial drones take off around globe (via)