Thousands of new companies making drones, one entrepreneur sees drones as next economic boom like the PC industry in the '70's-NPR

.
8/2/12, "Drones: From War Weapon To Homemade Toy," NPR, Larry Abramson

"Right now, there are thousands of small companies in this field. And hobbyists like Harrison in California, whose day job is at Pixar, see the drone era as the next frontier, as a marketplace that could power the next economic boom.

"I personally think that it's going to be a lot like the PC industry in the 1970s," he predicts. "There were just dozens or hundreds of little itty-bitty companies trying to fill the various niches."" (item at end of article)

.