Drones for Good

This chapter draws together the main themes of the book to outline some crucial trajectories in the development of drones. Notably, it investigates the process towards investing drones with trust in technical and moral terms, while also interrogating the utilisation of technology more broadly as a vehicle of furthering humanity's aims to demonstrate mastery over nature. Furthermore, it analyses the potential of developing fully autonomous drone systems and the consequences of establishing a drone highway. The book concludes by focussing on the presence of the machine as a new, companion species, which confronts humanity with new questions about its place in the world and its capacity to develop rich, meaningful relationships with artificial intelligence, of which drones are among the first examples.