ABSTRACT
The introduction to this collection includes a list of possible labels or names that stakeholders employ for new, emerging, dual-use technologies and the need for this to be an accurate descriptor of their revolutionary potential. The authors further speak to the need, on the part of stakeholders, for specificity in the label of these technologies as ‘it sets the parameters for understanding the type of technology that an “emerging” one encompasses’. The history of the drone as a military technology long resulted in perceived public caution on the part of industry that, for many years, resisted using this term in protest against the military stigma and a particular representation of the technology. In this concluding chapter, the author introduces my research on drone technologies in the Canadian context, with specific focus on the controversies and discourses that emerge alongside them.
