The Good Drone
Author | : Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780262358460 |
ISBN-13 | : 0262358468 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good. Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties and violate privacy. In The Good Drone, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines a different range of uses: the deployment of drones for the greater good. Choi-Fitzpatrick analyzes the way small-scale drones--as well as satellites, kites, and balloons--are used for a great many things, including documenting human rights abuses, estimating demonstration crowd size, supporting anti-poaching advocacy, and advancing climate change research. In fact, he finds, small drones are used disproportionately for good; nonviolent prosocial uses predominate.