The Persistent State: Surveillance, Power and the Dawn of the Drones

By Wilson Gilliam Jr

Wilson Gilliam Jr - professional pilot, author and entrepreneur explains how his role in early aerial remote sensing paved the way for aviation to be used as a powerful source of data collection about every one of us. This book is about extreme data, its leveraging power from an aerial perspective and its role in preserving societal power throughout American institutions.Drones stand ready to rejuvenate our economy, but their unregulated data collection capabilities come at a high cost to our privacy and human evolution. The Persistent State is a novel about being at the present-day crossroads of technology and relevancy - a place of intense data fusion where our choices can be predicted and where our digital selves are more valuable than flesh and blood. The Persistent State is a story about the best drone business cases, the changes in our communities that they will inspire, and the transformational power of the data they will collect. Drones will usher in a digitally based introspection that will put human beings on an evolutionary track that transcends anything we have ever dreamed about. Some fear it - some say that it's about time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08RGZH8ZC
• ISBN13: 9798587331075
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"