For all the skeptics.
Unmanned Navy Stealth Bomber's Maiden Flight - FoxNews.com
This thing is being designed to take-off from and land to an aircraft carrier, AUTONOMOUSLY!!
Not saying that passenger carrying ops will become autonomous, don't think I'd even get on that aircraft, but if we can design them to perform carrier ops by themselves, surely we can have remote operations of aircraft while in the least critical phase of flight possible, "cruise mode".
GJ