Drone (Object Lessons)

Author: Adam Rothstein

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  • : $24.99 NZD
  • : 9781628926323
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • : January 2015
  • : 165mm X 120mm
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  • : February 2015
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Description

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word "drone" fills many of us with a sense of technological dread. Adam Rothstein cuts through the mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing, and talks about what drones really are: what technologies are out there, and what's coming next; how drones are talked about, and how they are represented in popular culture. It turns out that drones are not as scary as they appear-but they are more complicated than you might expect. Drones reveal the strange relationships that humans are forming with their new technologies. Object Lesson is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

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Drones are a catch-all, and ominous, technological category, but when we talk about drones we are really talking about our own relationship with this technology.

Author description

Adam Rothstein is a freelance technology writer and researcher based in Portland, USA.

Table of contents

Introduction Chapter One: Four Technology Stories Chapter Two: The Military Drone Chapter Three: The Commercial Drone (or the hole where it ought to be) Chapter Four: Blinking Lights Chapter Five: Software and Hardware Chapter Six: The Non-Drone Chapter Seven: What the Drone is For Chapter Eight: The Drone in Discourse Chapter Nine: Drone Fiction Chapter Ten: Ourselves and the Drone Chapter Eleven: Aesthetics of the Drone Chapter Twelve: The Drone as Meme List of Images Bibliography Notes