drones

“It powers wearables and Internet of Things and connected cars and drones and everything else, because fundamentally all of those things are basically smartphones just put together in a different way, but put together by the same people with the same components…”

“A subtle but important thing that's happened in the last 20 years is the market of early adopters now is now very large. And so, and I just, like, look at it numerically, like, the number of total internet users in, like, 1999 was maybe fifty million people. A…”

“You think about a self-driving car, it's effectively a data center on wheels. And a drone is a data center with wings, and a robot is a data center with arms and legs, and a boat is a floating data center”

“He discovered if you send acoustic tones to a particular drone, you can cause the drone to fall out of the sky, because the MEMS accelerometer on the inside of the chip has a resonant frequency, and if you hit it at eight kilohertz, It just tricks that little …”

“There are applications in genomics and, you know, drones and Bitcoin and three printing and things like that that do run into regulatory challenges. And so you know, some of the reason that people see these things that are perceived as fluff that, that, you kn…”

“Now luckily there are ways to address these problems. Sometimes they're already on the books in other forms outside of regulation. So if we could relax the rules, it wouldn't mean the end of all law. We would still have contract law and property law and torts …”

“More men bought drones than I watches for Christmas.”

“And then if you look at commercial jets, it's even smaller. I mean, it's, I think I got, I think the last number that we got was forty one billion years of continuous operation which is, you know, three times the Age of the universe.”

“As long as we're treating drones as any other kind of airplane I wouldn't recommend this, but if a drone is trespassing over your property and you choose to shoot it down, it's like treated as shooting an airplane, which is like 25 years in jail or something l…”

“These types of laws should be technology agnostic. Shouldn't matter whether it's binoculars used or whether it's a drone used or a ladder.”

“Now that you have drones you know, an eight foot fence versus a 20 foot fence versus a two foot fence, it's pretty much equivalent. Doesn't really matter. You know, you can fly your drone over and deliver your contraband kind of regardless of the height of the…”

“What's interesting to me about the Hollywood application is that they actually were some of the earliest adopters, and they adopted it even before it was legal for them to do so.”

“Frankly, there was a lot of concern that we could end up with you know, a situation where 50 different states had 50 different regulations when it comes to autonomous vehicles. And what we tried to do is to lay out a framework that wasn't prescriptive, that le…”

“As, you know, autonomous really takes off on the street, you start to see autonomous and drones as, you know, combined the next big paradigm shift in our settlement patterns, right?”

“This is part of a broader wave, which is, if you just go back and look at the history of computing, we had the mainframes, we had sort of a one computer for every 10,000 people, or a 100,000 people, then you had PCs, sort of one for every 10 people, and then y…”

“So longer term, in my view, that, you know, sort of autonomy, knowing the drone will avoid obstacles, be able to do kind of high-level functionality like identify people and objects, will eventually allow software developers to build applications in the same w…”

“You can have one operator responsible for multiple drones. Five, 1000, and eventually maybe someday thousands. And I think that's a super, super powerful operating paradigm.”

“I think we're very close to a moment in time where somebody can call nine one and a drone will be automatically dispatched from the roof of a police department to immediately provide eyes on the sky.”

“Look, drones help us become more efficient and effective, and we can respond faster, save lives, and deescalate situations much quicker. You have a drone that can be overhead and You know, 30 seconds to a minute”

“And I think that we are going to see over the next decade Another fundamental change as rather than having these drones animated by an operator on the ground or by like relatively simple algorithms on board, they become animated by really advanced autonomy and…”

“The vast majority of what's happening in Ukraine is still basically one-to-one. Like you've got these FPV pilots who are expert operators who are flying the thing, or they're flying drones with like, with very limited kinds of, you know, pretty simple mission,…”

“I always say, like, wherever they're building iPhones, they're gonna have a really good ecosystem for building drones and other kinds of electronics.”

“All of a sudden, drones are the most important thing, and like, all of a sudden, we were like, we don't even, we don't, not just, we don't make the drone, we don't make any of the parts for the drone. Yeah. And they're all made, the only person who makes them …”

“There's a crypto angle to at least three of them, because obviously there's a crypto angle to money, there's a crypto angle to AI in terms of constraints. This crypto angle to the drones, because you're going to want the control plane for the drones to be on c…”

“Killer AI is already here, and it's called drones, and every country is pursuing it, so we don't have to care really about the image generators and chatbots.”

“And in Ukraine, you know, these things with the drones on cables, just crazy thing they're doing there, right? Like, you know, those like big unwindy cable things that you sometimes see on like ships, right? So they have these cables for these one-way drones t…”

“If you have an exquisite system that was hundreds of millions of dollars, and it can be taken out with a thousand dollar drone that changes the economics of war, and it particularly changes the economics of a war of mass.”

“We can't do that with a helicopter today unless you've just kept five helicopters up, 24 seven, and that's just not sustainable. This is the only way to actually achieve that level of safety.”

“You hear a gunshot go off, and the drone finds a shooter getting into a car and driving off, and then pursuing the vehicle. It's kind of almost hard to see that it isn't inevitable.”