If livestreaming apps like Periscope and Meerkat are going to ?change the news industry in a similar way Twitter did—by allowing whoever happens to be near a news event to become a de facto journalist—imagine what happens when you put an internet-connected, live streaming camera in the sky.

The new DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter, ?announced Wednesday, looks just like the old Phantom, save for some gold stripes on the outside to let you know you've got the "Professional" edition. And while it does have better motors and some better guts, the new one, from a hardware standpoint, isn't leaps and bounds above what's already out there. Its killer app (to use a tired phrase) is the ability to stream whatever the drone sees onto YouTube, with one click. Livestreaming is exactly where drones are going, very soon.

"Any event of any kind, I can see them being there," Eric Cheng, DJI's director of photography, told me at a launch event for the Phantom 3 Wednesday. "A protest, an accident, a disaster, someone's going to be there streaming from it."

It was perhaps in poor taste for the Verge to run a story about how Periscope is the future of journalism mere minutes after a building collapsed in ?Manhattan's Lower East Side earlier this month. But the sentiment—that people have a tendency to whip out their phones when shit is going down—isn't wrong.