We now live in the drone age
As drone technology improves and is more widely available, it is being put to more and more uses.
Initially associated with recreation and logistics, drones are now increasingly being used in warfare, threatening to upset long-standing geopolitical realities. While companies like Zipline, Wing or Amazon are working on ways to speed up still further the delivery of goods of various kinds, creating drone designs for larger shipments and in more and more countries, progressively lowering once-exorbitant shipment costs, we are also seeing drones increasingly used in agriculture.
Drones are relatively small, simple and inexpensive to manufacture, giving nations with little tradition in military technology advantages they have never had before. Chinese company DJI is now a leader in general purpose drone technology, facing a ban in the United States based on its supposed threat to national security, while other countries such as Turkey are now leaders in the use of military drones, challenging the traditional hegemony of Western nations in exporting military technology.
