2015  
- Drones start flying over America, Americans.  Hollywood, television and other media enthral the public with new style of creative video.
-Business and real estate start using drones.  There's an almost constant buzz of drones in the air over populated areas by the end of 2015.
-Municipalities and government agencies make strong push to save costs using drones to inventory and keep track property.  Enforcement is cautious but opposition from the public eases.
-Heat monitoring by utilities begins.  Carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane levels gathered with drones.
-The word 'drone' has lost its fancy and new terms will be found, maybe portable flyer or winged data collector.

2016
-Counties start mapping inventory both public and private for property tax assessment.  
-Municipalities begin counting vehicles and people.
-National parks map vegetation and start coordinating visual with thermal data to track activity.  First criminal prosecution for foraging in a National Park.  Poaching all but eliminated.
-State begins log of all outdoor burning including camp fires and barbeques.  Several contractors and land managers heavily fined for illegal outdoor burning.  Bon fires are no more.
-Privacy erodes.  Public begins to accept full time monitoring by portable flying units.

2017
-Air quality reports are published for each neighborhood and many streets.  Plans are approved for increased enforcement and monitoring of neighborhoods that exceed surrounding neighborhoods in pollutant levels.
-Legal system has adapted to modern data collection.  Warrants are legalized for anonymous complaints from government agencies not requiring them to site drone collection source.
-Drone tracking begins.  Individual automobiles with ownership listed as someone with unpaid parking or traffic fines or an expired drivers license are tracked.  
-States consider monitoring people who owe the state taxes.  The Federal Government considers the same.


2018
-Thermal data collection improves crop efficiency by five percent.  
-The owner of any vehicle that exceeds the speed limit is fined as aerial  drones co-ordinate with street speed limit cameras to verify not only the vehicle license plate number but the identity of the driver.