--- title: The Nonlinear Progress of Things, Drones and Hawks author: George Mandis date: 2017-02-21 tags: post --- Saw a headline today that fits in nicely with a [previous post](https://george.mand.is/2017/02/progress-is/) I wrote. [Terrorists are building drones. France is destroying them with eagles](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/terrorists-are-building-drones-france-is-destroying-them-with-eagles/?postshare=9821487707085568&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a774b6e3acfd). We can live in the ages of drones but somehow [falconry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry) is still relevant.