Raven Strike is a fiction book written by Dale Brown published in 2011. The book is about drones and what happens if the technology falls into the wrong hands. In the book, there is a new software program which targets very specific individuals rather than a point on the earth. The drone is launched but since it is a test case, a second drone is sent along to monitor it; they accidentally hit each other and the drone goes down. The bad guys find the drones and since the test was in another country all sorts of situations develop. The elite team called Whiplash goes in and uses the latest technology to have an operational advantage of those who do not have the latest and greatest technology. It is interesting to see how a small group can have a large advantage of a large organization.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, while the book is fictional, it does create interesting capabilities of the technology – drones, satellites, GPS, communication all within the team setting. Sometimes we expect non fiction companies to do the same thing, and although there is some overlap, it is not quite reality. The real issue is using what is available to your advantage and generally the larger companies because of being large and profitable can experiment or use test situations better. Then the world will change the technology comes to the smaller companies and then they have the advantage and the cycle continues.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions.