Drone´s eye view [Back Story]

This issue of IEEE Spectrum surveys what the editors expect to be hot topics in the coming year. In "Open Season on Drones?," Senior Editor David Schneider writes about the increasingly contentious debate on the use of small cameraladen drones, a subject that\´s close to his heart because he flies small camera-laden drones himself, for fun. "I\´ve been flying radio-controlled model airplanes as a hobby since before I could drive," he says. "And in the past few years I\´ve started putting cameras on them. That makes them no different, really, than the kinds of drones I write about in this issue."