So, being a software whore, I was disappointed to see such a thin list here. Please allow me to suggest some additions:

I’ve got a friend who develops OSS in his spare time, or should I say he used to.

I’m not against OSS, but at the same time, as someone who designs professionally and uses a large percentage of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite for work, IMO, the people that work on that software deserve my money in return.

If flying cars do become a thing, people definitely won’t be allowed to pilot them manually. The only way it would work is if they are completely autonomous.

I’ll hate AutoCAD from the bottom of my heart for as long as they exist. Their license management has caused me so many headaches as technical support that I really hope someone comes along with a superior product and puts them out of business.

Seriously... If you aren’t extremely careful exporting the license and…

I’ve stopped using VLC entirely as nearly every time I’d try to use it, I’d get the dreaded “rebuilding font cache” popup. I use MPC-HC now and it works wonderfully.

Krita- one of the best pieces of open source software I have ever used, and yet it too often gets overlooked. It is a Photoshop/Clip Studio/Painter replacement. Specifically with a bent toward digital illustration and it beats the pants off the competition with a much more powerful brush engine and many more useful…

+1 on Blender. Also, Pixar allows free use of Renderman which has a plugin for Blender. Just released a new version the other day too.

Inkscape is a pretty decent alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Maybe not as powerful and feature-packed, but it’s always gotten the job done for me.

Drone tech combined with the autonomous tech for cars will be the way to go. Having defined sets of aviation rules actually works in favor of autonomous tech as it is way easier to program the computers to deal with set rules vs trying to train them to deal with the chaos on the roads.

I want this SOOO bad!

Well, turbine and I/C may make noise, but most of the noise you hear from a helicopter or prop-powered aircraft is from the rotors/prop, not the engine itself. The noise won’t be any less with an electric quadcopter. I don’t disagree that the quadcopter probably will be the answer to the “flying car”, but people are…

As much as long wanted the idea of flying cars, having moved to Boston and seen how they drive on the GROUND... no.

I’m just getting into Blender after spending sometime looking through my options. On another note MAYA is free for students but I found it easier to find instructional videos for Blender than Maya.

Of course there’s the obnoxiously loud whirring and the wind blowing in your face constantly from a quadcopter that large. You could at least attempt to sleep for the 7 minutes of flight time you’d most likely have.

What a crippled little list: There are free 3D software instead of Maya/cinema 4D/3DSMax, free versions of compositing software, etc. etc.

“Avenger of Pennsylvania” is either Dr. Strange or a sweet deal on a Dodge. Either way, I’m happy...

My first thought is that the ocean is a pretty dynamic place and even large things sometimes get moved or buried.