Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson‪)‬ Not What You Think with Zacha Rosen

There are exciting drones and there are definitely scary drones. But drones have quieter things going on as well. They’re already at work doing ordinary stuff: working in agriculture, in infrastructure, filming the news.

Peter Robinson is a journalist at the ABC, and has been working on pioneering some of those moves for the organisation.

Links from this episode:

CASA’s Can I Fly There? app.
Four Corners’ water theft story, with its drone-shot footage.
The drone battery fire on board a plane at Melbourne airport.
New York Mag writer Benjamin Wallace Wells described a drone as something that can move you “back and forth between the intimate and the vast.”
Wanna buy a drone now? The Wirecutter has a guide to buying a cheapish one.

Songs from This Episode:

They Do They Don’t — Jack Johnson
Homesick — Pavrov Stellar
La Kebradita — Mexican Institute of Sound
S.T.A.Y. — Hans Zimmer (Interstellar soundtrack)
A.C — ILJUS WIFMO
Lovely Raquel — Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption soundtrack)
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