{"id":5296,"date":"2012-02-03T19:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2012-02-03T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:00:53","slug":"sings-of-the-times-complex-problems-and-future-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5296","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the times: complex problems and future drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; complex problems and a future with drones graphically depicted ]<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-signs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-signs.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC signs\" width=\"583\" height=\"614\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-signs.png 583w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SPEC-signs-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nA couple of interesting, arresting and relevant signs here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The top one is a perennial favorite, and is far too simple to represent genuine complexity with any accuracy &#8212; but still gets something of the point across.<\/p>\n<p>The lower of the two comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/shloky.com\/idea-buildingblocks\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=idea-buildingblocks\">a post by blog-friend <strong>Shlok Vaida<\/strong> today<\/a> &#8212; I&#8217;ve cropped the original because the lettering would be illegible in my &#8220;specs&#8221; format if I hadn&#8217;t, but I encourage you to click through and see it &#8212; and also to visit <strong>John Robb<\/strong>&#8216;s very recent post <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2012\/02\/drone-swarms-are-here-1-minute-to-midnight.html\">Drone Swarms are Here: 1 Minute to Midnight?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shloky is an enterprising fellow &#8212; is he already printing up large quantities of those &#8220;Authorized Drone Strike Zone&#8221; notices, or (more likely because more efficient) waiting a year or four before printing them on a <em>just-in-time<\/em> basis?<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Are we wearing our <strong>time-crash helmets<\/strong> yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; complex problems and a future with drones graphically depicted ] . . . . A couple of interesting, arresting and relevant signs here&#8230; The top one is a perennial favorite, and is far too simple to represent genuine complexity with any accuracy &#8212; but still gets something of the point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,526,327,9,707,37,17,644,7,514,687,691,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-charles-cameron","category-complex-systems","category-complexity","category-drones","category-futurism","category-global-guerillas","category-graphical-thinking","category-robb","category-shlok","category-specs","category-symbolism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}