How Did "Drone" Become Such A Dirty Word?

The term is about as politically charged as tech vocabulary can be. Should we stop using it?

In 2013, the word "drone" has referred to a number of gadgets: on one end of the drone spectrum, there's a $300 consumer quadcopter that you can buy at a Toys R' Us that is a "drone". On the other, you have a $4 million piece of advanced government hardware that can do everything from monitor forest fires in order to assist with their containment to the deployment of surgical CIA-led missile strikes.

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