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Those Flying Things: The speakers in Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
When it comes to drones, a lot of ideas float in the ether. Technologists see potential for flying machines to help us in all sorts of unexpected ways, governments take measures that seem hard and fixed, and meanwhile the media oversimplifies and dramatizes the issue.
Read more:Thu-Huong Ha on TED Blog
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tags: Algorithm Controls, Daniel Suarez, Drone, ETH Zurich, Event, Flying Machine Arena, Lian Pin Koh, quadrocopter, quadrotor, Raffaello D'Andrea, TED Global, TEDGlobal2013
Hallie Siegel
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Hallie Siegel
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