2015
- Drones start flying over America, Americans. Hollywood, television and other media enthral the public with new style of creative video.
-Business and real estate start using drones. There's an almost constant buzz of drones in the air over populated areas by the end of 2015.
-Municipalities and government agencies make strong push to save costs using drones to inventory and keep track property. Enforcement is cautious but opposition from the public eases.
-Heat monitoring by utilities begins. Carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane levels gathered with drones.
-The word 'drone' has lost its fancy and new terms will be found, maybe portable flyer or winged data collector.
2016
-Counties start mapping inventory both public and private for property tax assessment.
-Municipalities begin counting vehicles and people.
-National parks map vegetation and start coordinating visual with thermal data to track activity. First criminal prosecution for foraging in a National Park. Poaching all but eliminated.
-State begins log of all outdoor burning including camp fires and barbeques. Several contractors and land managers heavily fined for illegal outdoor burning. Bon fires are no more.
-Privacy erodes. Public begins to accept full time monitoring by portable flying units.
2017
-Air quality reports are published for each neighborhood and many streets. Plans are approved for increased enforcement and monitoring of neighborhoods that exceed surrounding neighborhoods in pollutant levels.
-Legal system has adapted to modern data collection. Warrants are legalized for anonymous complaints from government agencies not requiring them to site drone collection source.
-Drone tracking begins. Individual automobiles with ownership listed as someone with unpaid parking or traffic fines or an expired drivers license are tracked.
-States consider monitoring people who owe the state taxes. The Federal Government considers the same.
2018
-Thermal data collection improves crop efficiency by five percent.
-The owner of any vehicle that exceeds the speed limit is fined as aerial drones co-ordinate with street speed limit cameras to verify not only the vehicle license plate number but the identity of the driver.
