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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Four Technology Stories -- The automobile -- The aircraft -- The computer -- The robot -- Chapter 2 The Military Drone -- Revolutions in military history -- Aircraft without pilots -- Chapter 3 The Commercial Drone (or, the hole where it ought to be) -- A brief history of multirotors -- What are commercial drones for? -- The drone in airspace -- Chapter 4 Blinking Lights -- Chapter 5 Software and Hardware -- The anatomy of the drone -- Motors -- Batteries -- Propellers -- Sensors -- Software -- Controllers/Interface -- Parts and wholes -- Ethical components -- Chapter 6 The Non-Drone -- Surveillance -- Algorithms -- Weapons -- Robots -- Chapter 7 What The Drone is For -- Intended functions -- Potential functions -- Unintended functions -- Chapter 8 The Drone in Discourse -- The military and the government -- The FAA -- Lobbyists -- Businesses -- News media -- Activists -- Artists -- The public -- Chapter 9 Drone Fiction -- Chapter 10 Our Selves and the Drone -- Material world -- Human components -- From analogy to data -- Chapter 11 Esthetics of the Drone -- A specular technology -- Mediated experience -- Other sensory input -- The semiotics of the drone -- What's in a name? -- Chapter 12 The Drone as Meme -- List of Images -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index