drifting to cores in Silicon Valley and Redmond - a contest between Microsoft and Apple and Google. And the prized Korean manufacturing excellence was no match for cheap Chinese and then Vietnamese labor welded to assembly-line technology. We see this pattern of network-led shredding nearly everywhere now, the result of powerful cores of knowledge and wide distribution of connection. Newspapers - removed from relevancy by crowd-sourced newsfeeds and constantly-connected smart databases. Once indomintable television networks, devoured by cheap home- made videos and large-scale platforms that use the Internet for distribution. Bitcoin and other first-generation block-chained currencies eating at the once unquestionable authority of central banks. Drones hovering along on a skein of GPS and data links are also among the new citizens of this connected skein. They are products of a data web: They depend on centralized connection and the distribution of technology, data, and design. They may do to old ideas of security and power what the fusion of GPS and smart phones and databases have done to hotel chains or medicine. Massed, self-organized drone fleets can turn aircraft carriers and exposed battle groups from sources of strength into vulnerable and even dangerously self- defeating antiques. They will remake urban landscapes. Think of the way that Baron Hausman redesigned Paris in the 18 Century to manage with the Enlightement-age danger of liberated, angry citizens. The creation of the city’s wide boulevards, central axes for easy movement of the police, and intersections engineered to quarantine riots was a reaction against the demands of mass liberty. Our cities are now vulnerable not simply to mass protest risk, but to the pinch of asymmetric levitating drones. The sensations of safety behind walls, up a staircase, inside a windowed room all begin to slip away. Drone risk - and all the potentially wonderful elements of constant, instant drone assistance — will comma