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SAN DIEGO — When you hear the word drone, images of warfare or high-tech surveillance come to mind. But the former editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and a young Tijuana programmer have a different idea. They believe drones will revolutionize our daily lives.

Outside a warehouse in San Diego engineers huddle over a computer. They are about to launch a drone, a remote controlled aerial vehicle. They punch in a start and end point on a map, and it takes off.