Search Results for: Drone

Why Drones Are the Future of Outdoor Search and Rescue

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“The dividing line—civilization there, wilderness here—was so apparent from up high. You wouldn’t be able to mark it clearly on a map, but Garrett and Burgin were over the edge, lost on the wild side. And now they were found—in four minutes.”

 

 

Source: Outside
Published: Oct 4, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,726 words)

The Mystery of the Gatwick Drone

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“In public, the airport and police stuck firm to the idea that there was definitely a drone incursion. But privately, some have doubts. “We work on evidence, and I haven’t seen any. That’s really all there is to say,” one police officer with knowledge of the case told me.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Dec 1, 2020
Length: 21 minutes (5,411 words)

The Drone Boat Of ‘Shipwreck Alley’

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Source: The Verge
Published: Mar 5, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,446 words)

Meet Charpu, the Drone-Racing Megastar Who Doesn’t Feel Like Racing

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How Carlos “Charpu” Puertolas became one of the early pioneers of drone-racing, despite his aversion to actually competing.

Source: Wired
Published: Sep 9, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,853 words)

Theorizing the Drone

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What does the rise of the drone mean for justice, for the ethics of heroism, for psychology? Most important of all, who is dying and why?

Source: Longreads
Published: May 13, 2015
Length: 30 minutes (7,693 words)

Theorizing the Drone

Grégoire Chamayou | A Theory of the Drone | The New Press | January 2015 | Translated by Janet Lloyd | Originally published in France as Théorie du Drone by la Fabrique Editions, Paris, 2013 | 28 minutes (7,693 words)

 

Below are four chapters excerpted from the book A Theory of the Drone, by French philosopher Grégoire Chamayou, as recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky.

 

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Pattern-of-Life Analysis

Enemy leaders look like everyone else; enemy combatants look like everyone else; enemy vehicles look like civilian vehicles; enemy installations look like civilian installations; enemy equipment and materials look like civilian equipment and materials.

—American Defense Science Board

 

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Drones and Everything After

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Drones “are participants in nearly every type of human endeavor,” changing the way we see the world and each other.

Published: Oct 5, 2014
Length: 24 minutes (6,211 words)

Your Inner Drone: The Politics of the Automated Future

Nicholas Carr | The Glass Cage: Automation and Us | October 2014 | 15 minutes (3,831 words)

 

The following is an excerpt from Nicholas Carr‘s new book, The Glass Cage. Our thanks to Carr for sharing this piece with the Longreads community.  Read more…

Your Inner Drone: The Politics of the Automated Future

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A new Longreads Exclusive from Nicholas Carr‘s new book, The Glass Cage, out today. Our thanks to Carr for sharing this piece with the Longreads community.

Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 30, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,831 words)

Confessions of a Drone Warrior

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From a windowless box in Nevada, Airman First Class Brandon Bryant helped pilot drones that killed over a thousand people as part of the U.S. drone warfare program:

Bryant’s laser hovered on the corner of the building. “Missile off the rail.” Nothing moved inside the compound but the eerily glowing cows and goats. Bryant zoned out at the pixels. Then, about six seconds before impact, he saw a hurried movement in the compound. “This figure runs around the corner, the outside, toward the front of the building. And it looked like a little kid to me. Like a little human person.” Bryant stared at the screen, frozen. “There’s this giant flash, and all of a sudden there’s no person there.” He looked over at the pilot and asked, “Did that look like a child to you?” They typed a chat message to their screener, an intelligence observer who was watching the shot from “somewhere in the world”—maybe Bagram, maybe the Pentagon, Bryant had no idea—asking if a child had just run directly into the path of their shot. “And he says, ‘Per the review, it’s a dog.’ ”

Source: GQ
Published: Oct 26, 2013
Length: 21 minutes (5,485 words)