Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? Plenty, as Nick Dowson explains.
The Iraq war brought the oxymoronic ‘surgical strike’. Now military technologies have given us another odd coupling: the ‘humanitarian drone’.
It’s no joke: the repurposing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for delivery of emergency aid is just one of the innovations being hailed for a new ‘cyber humanitarianism’, along with artificial intelligence (AI), big data and others.
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