I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but fuck drones in general. We're looking at a future where it's Wall-E but all the fat hog humans are employed as drone operators. Real Surrogate hours.
Nah, drones in general are good. The problem -- as usual -- is capitalism taking a promising new technology and figuring out how to use it in nightmarish ways to perpetuate capitalism.
Drones minimize danger to humans in all sorts of situations and make good stuff like surveying shoreline erosion through the air cheaper and easier. The problem isn't the technology, the problem is how we're using it.
Neo-liberal capitalism is all about boiling down social interactions to mediated and impersonal market transactions between "individual market forces." If we don't catch ourselves the logical next step is further boiling down social interactions to mediated impersonal market transactions between drone surrogates.
The two on the right sound cool and good, but the drone mentioned on the left was apparently measuring shoreline erosion.
Under communism, we will have plenty of time to measure the shorelines ourselves. We won't need drones.
I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but fuck drones in general. We're looking at a future where it's Wall-E but all the fat hog humans are employed as drone operators. Real Surrogate hours.
Nah, drones in general are good. The problem -- as usual -- is capitalism taking a promising new technology and figuring out how to use it in nightmarish ways to perpetuate capitalism.
Drones minimize danger to humans in all sorts of situations and make good stuff like surveying shoreline erosion through the air cheaper and easier. The problem isn't the technology, the problem is how we're using it.
Wut?
Neo-liberal capitalism is all about boiling down social interactions to mediated and impersonal market transactions between "individual market forces." If we don't catch ourselves the logical next step is further boiling down social interactions to mediated impersonal market transactions between drone surrogates.