How drones are waging a stealth war on the way we think about society

by Philippa Kaur 30 September 2020, 18:00 189 Views

Must-read book The Drone Age by Michael J. Boyle reveals how drone technology is challenging everything we do – and how we think about war and peace

Technology 30 September 2020

MACHINES are only as good as the people who use them. They are neutral – just a faster, more efficient way of doing something that we always intended to do. That is the argument wielded by defenders of technology, anyway.

Michael Boyle, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, isn’t buying it. From commerce to warfare, spy craft to disaster relief, our menu of choices “has been altered or …

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How drones are waging a stealth war on the way we think about society

New detector breakthrough pushes boundaries of quantum computing

Screen time can change visual perception — and that's not necessarily bad

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