Drone

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Four Technology Stories
	The automobile
	The aircraft
	The computer
	The robot
Chapter 2 The Military Drone
	Revolutions in military history
	Aircraft without pilots
Chapter 3 The Commercial Drone (or, the hole where it ought to be)
	A brief history of multirotors
	What are commercial drones for?
	The drone in airspace
Chapter 4 Blinking Lights
Chapter 5 Software and Hardware
	The anatomy of the drone
	Motors
	Batteries
	Propellers
	Sensors
	Software
	Controllers/Interface
	Parts and wholes
	Ethical components
Chapter 6 The Non-Drone
	Surveillance
	Algorithms
	Weapons
	Robots
Chapter 7 What The Drone is For
	Intended functions
	Potential functions
	Unintended functions
Chapter 8 The Drone in Discourse
	The military and the government
	The FAA
	Lobbyists
	Businesses
	News media
	Activists
	Artists
	The public
Chapter 9 Drone Fiction
Chapter 10 Our Selves and the Drone
	Material world
	Human components
	From analogy to data
Chapter 11 Esthetics of the Drone
	A specular technology
	Mediated experience
	Other sensory input
	The semiotics of the drone
	What’s in a name?
Chapter 12 The Drone as Meme
List of Images
Notes
Bibliography
Index