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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