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-- Publisher. Four Technology Stories -- Military Drone -- Commercial Drone (or, The Hole Where It Ought To Be) -- Blinking Lights -- Software And Hardware -- Non-drone -- What The Drone Is For -- Drone In Discourse -- Drone Fiction -- Our Selves And The Drone -- Esthetics Of The Drone -- Drone As Meme. By Adam Rothstein. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 167-175) And Index.
Categories:
- Engineering & Transportation
- Engineering
- Aerospace
- Engineering
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Author : Rothstein, Adam
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2015-02-03
Number Of Pages : 208
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1628926325
ISBN-13 : 9781628926323
Item weight : 0.49 lb
Dimensions : 0.87 in x 4.88 in x 6.46 in
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