Drones (9)
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- 5 min
- Kinolab
- 2008
Memo lives in a small Mexican rural village with his father. This narrative reveals that access to water in the area surrounding their village is limited; one company oversees a watering hole where people pay to replenish their supply. This business, Del Rio Water Company, builds dams and other means of controlling the water supply, and uses drones to protect these against suspected aqua-terrorists who might seek to take back control of it.
- Kinolab
- 2008
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- 5 min
- Kinolab
- 2008
Drones and Gatekeeping Natural Resources
Memo lives in a small Mexican rural village with his father. This narrative reveals that access to water in the area surrounding their village is limited; one company oversees a watering hole where people pay to replenish their supply. This business, Del Rio Water Company, builds dams and other means of controlling the water supply, and uses drones to protect these against suspected aqua-terrorists who might seek to take back control of it.
How might the centralization of technological power and capital lead to gatekeeping of natural and vital resources like water? How might drones and other technologies de-sensitize profiteers to those whom they are hurting? What happens when technology is used and abused by those who don’t have the best interests of all people at heart? How does technology cause and reinforce changes to our environment? Could surveillance technology such as this potentially be used for positive conservation purposes?
Sleep Dealer: Del Rio Water Company-
- 10 min
- The New York Times
- 2025
This article reports how Ukraine recovered debris from a newly encountered Shahed drone variant during Russian nighttime strikes. The drone was discovered to have advanced jamming tech, decoys, and saturation. The drone utilized new war tactics and had increased effectiveness of remote warfare.
- The New York Times
- 2025
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- 10 min
- The New York Times
- 2025
The Weapon that Terrorizes Ukraine by Night
This article reports how Ukraine recovered debris from a newly encountered Shahed drone variant during Russian nighttime strikes. The drone was discovered to have advanced jamming tech, decoys, and saturation. The drone utilized new war tactics and had increased effectiveness of remote warfare.
- What are the strategic implications of Russia acquiring and relying on Iranian tech and mass drone use?
- What are the long-term consequences and ethics of the increased use of remote military drone capabilities? What are the connections between research and commercial technologies being applied to this change in warfare tactics?
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- 5 min
- BBC
- 2025
A surgeon in the occupied West Bank talks about how Israeli military drones are coming to neighborhoods and picking off civilians, including injured children near hospitals.
- BBC
- 2025
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- 5 min
- BBC
- 2025
Drone Use in Ghaza
A surgeon in the occupied West Bank talks about how Israeli military drones are coming to neighborhoods and picking off civilians, including injured children near hospitals.
- In what ways have warfare ethics been changed by the development of AI-based drone technologies ?
- Considering how many types of technologies go into current military drones (CV, spatial navigation, robotics, AI, etc.), who are the responsible parties for the impact of drone warfare? Researchers and developers? Military organizations? Drone pilots?