Will Drone Shows Replace Firework Displays in the Future?
Sure. Right after they get through 'replacing' delivery trucks, cargo ships, jet aircraft, delivery vans, UPS, FedEx USPS and of course; all forms of human existence as we know it.
I keed, I keed.
Sorry for the rant but; WHY is it they have to REPLACE anything? What is the motive to suggest that a technology that is literally in it's infancy (compared to things they are rumored to replace in the near future), is somehow going to change so much that has existed and been established over centuries and I am not just talking about firework displays. Never mind.
I have been a remote pilot for almost 45 years. I've had businesses directly tied to this craft for almost 30 of those years, I have invested my life into what has become 'drones' so I am in no way against their evolution. However.
Why can't 'drones' become part of our world instead of replacing it? To me the drones shows are very impressive on their own merit, but they are not anything like, or near, a firework display and they never will be. A drone show is like reading a tech blog while watching a firework display is akin to watching a blockbuster movie like Maverick Top Gun - no comparison. I still like reading about tech, but when I go to a movie I expect what only it can deliver.
Maybe I am sentimental but I would never want to live in a bland, plastic-lined, safe-space, hermetically-sealed, environmentally-friendly, electrically-buzzing world that resembles the 2008 movie - Wall E.
There is something visceral, majestic and awe-inspiring about a massive firework display. They have been around for over a thousand years and will not be supplanted by drones, though I am sure there will be those who will suggest suggest they should.