A few metres above the ground, a drone glides through London’s streets. It sees a man, scans his face, and quickly looks up his criminal record. Elsewhere, a traffic drone spies on vans and cars, checking their emissions and identifying illegal drivers. Another hovers in a living room, sees a little girl has a cat on her T-shirt, makes an algorithmic decision, and feeds a cat-related advert to her parent’s phone.
This is a near-future vision of the life of the urban drone, imagined by design agency Superflux. As part of an exhibition at the V&A Museum in London, a team led by Jon Ardern and Anab Jain designed and built a series of drones to explore how these flying machines will soon populate our cities.
The video they created, above, depicts how these machines will perceive an invisible world of information within our cities. They scan buildings, vehicles and people, track faces and geolocation, and look up personal data on distant databases somewhere in the cloud. And all this is done with existing technologies.
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