You're right about drones—drugs would definitely be a big one. In many cases, they're already being used for this, such as flying in drugs and other contraband. But in the future, you could imagine having something like a "trap house in the sky." I hadn’t thought about the other examples you mentioned, like neighborhood watch drones, but when you consider it, there’s a lot of potential there. The idea of neighborhood watch drones is fascinating—gone are the days of peeking around corners with flashlights.

I remember when I was a kid, my friend’s mother used to patrol in a car with a flashlight. She was part of some kind of watch group, and they had a radio for communication. It was for the small town I lived in. In the future, though, it'll probably be drones equipped with infrared cameras doing the job instead.

Regarding the drones in New Jersey, it seems they've vanished from social media or at least decreased since the FAA implemented that ban there. It’s worth noting that the FAA apparently had a heads-up about drones in their airspace months in advance. I read about that in the Daily Mail, though I haven’t looked deeper into it.

I hadn’t considered CRISPR or other tech being used to create drones that can harvest energy directly from the environment—that’s some real sci-fi stuff. But I agree, innovations like that could shape the future, and it doesn’t even have to be on a small scale. You could theoretically build something like a bird using that kind of technology. The future is going to be wild, especially once we achieve true AGI.

People are claiming we’re there already, or at least some AI YouTubers are saying that with things like ChatGPT-4. But I’m not convinced. I think a lot of that is just hype or stock-pushing. The real moment will come when you can turn it on, give it data, and it learns like a human—creating entirely new data that didn’t exist before. That’s when things will really start to get wild.

If such systems become FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and accessible to the public, it could radically change everything. Good or bad, the elites might find their ability to control things quickly slipping away. Once everyone has the ability to build their own systems, the traditional control grid could become obsolete. The future could truly belong to individuals instead of corrupt and pathological centralized powers that be.

Thanks!