The crowd in attendance was enthusiastic but not large. I suspect that adding wagering to the mix might one day create overflow crowds on the Museum's field.
The small racing drones ran noisily over a hilly course at about a hundred yards distance from the viewing area. They were only intermittently visible as they were maneuvered at close to 100 mph through a series of arched wickets. The pilots and a few spectators were equipped with VR headsets to follow the action with a cockpit view.
The participants were oddly sedentary and seemed detached from their physical surroundings. The experience appeared to resemble that of a video game, except that mistakes had real-world consequences.
The event suggested to me a re-enactment of scenes from William Gibson's prophetic 1984 sci-fi novel, Neuromancer.
I don't think anyone noticed that the action was being recorded by a time-traveling Leica.
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Your Leica will still be working long after these drones are in the trash, I think.
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