You never saw them flying: advanced generations of drones

Abstract

Reading about drones recently, the Alan Parsons Project 1982 song ‘Eye in the sky' came to mind. At one point I had a recording of it, and I never forgot the tune and the atmosphere. There was something about that song that I liked, and didn't like at the same time. This to me resembles how I feel about drones: highly technical devices that I like and dislike for what they are. Just as with the song, my ambiguous feeling will probably not go away. Let me mention three bits of recent news to illustrate this.