jay stanley

Unmanned aerial vehicles are moving from military use into civilian hands. In fact, a law passed by Congress this year requires the FAA to open U.S. skies to widespread drone use by 2015. We look at how these robots could be used -- or abused. Our guests: ChrisAnderson, CEO of 3D Robotics, founder of DIY Drones, and former editor of Wired; Midday science contributor John Monahan; and JayStanley, senior policy analyst with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, and editor of the ACLU’s Free Future blog.  

September 23rd & 24th, 2011, on The Signal…

“In the past, personal and political liberty depended to a considerable extent on government inefficiency.  The spirit of tyranny was always willing, but its organization and equipment were generally weak.  Progressive science and technology have changed all that completely.”  

-Aldous Huxley, 1948

This week (September 9th & 10th, 2011) on The Signal…

Guitarist Robert McCoy plays solo, but he’s got the whole city of Baltimore as his back-up band.  We visit Robert at his favorite musical venue, outdoors under the trees at Wyman Park Dell, and we hear his contribution to the soundtrack of Charm City

Eden Unger Bowditch takes us inside the mysterious world of her young-adult novel, “The Atomic Weight of Secrets”