I still think people—myself included—look a little ridiculous on our smartphones, staring down vacantly at the truly phenomenal feats of evolutionary engineering that are our thumbs, which we now send twiddling for hours every day across a slip of glass and light. And so once I discovered consumer drone technology, one thing really struck me: Drones make us look back up. They yank us out of our screenshock and put us back into the real world in a remarkable way. Flight. Ah yes, we remember, we live in a world with a sky. We live in a world with up.