"He sends them out in the morning to fly around the whole world, and by breakfast they are back again."
In Norse mythology, Odin keeps two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory. Every morning they fly out over the nine worlds and come back with what they've seen.
I have a tattoo of Njord, another figure from that same mythology, guiding a ship home through a breaking storm. It's part of where the name comes from: heritage that's Danish and Norse, and an idea I keep coming back to: nothing gets made without a thought behind it first. A photo, a piece of footage, a story. It all starts as an idea before it's anything you can see.
A drone isn't so different from a raven sent out to look at the world. It goes up, it watches, and it brings the view back down to everyone still on the ground.