Adam Rothstein argues that we "live in a drone culture, just as we once lived in a car culture." He claims the "Northrop-Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is your '55 Chevrolet":
Our technological capacity for watching, recording, collecting, and archiving has never been wider, and has never been more automated. The way we look at the world—our basic ethnographic approach—is mimicking the technology of the drone.
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