Unmanned aerial vehicle
UAVs don’t fly free—they inherit military logic, evade civilian oversight, and deliver capability before consent.
Drones
Flight without a pilot, in war and everywhere else.
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DJI Phantom
DJI
The DJI Phantom series launched in 2013 as an entry-level, GPS-stabilised quadcopter. It pioneered the consumer aerial photography drone form factor. It was DJI’s first fully assembled drone. It was priced at $629. It achieved 15 minutes of flight time. It supported optional GoPro mounting. It used a GPS-enabled NAZA-M autopilot. The Phantom 2 Vision introduced the first built-in camera in the series. The line was discontinued after the Phantom 4.
Neo4j
Neo4j Inc. · 2010
Neo4j is a graph database built for relationship-heavy workloads. It delivers expressive querying and transactional safety—but horizontal scaling, vector search, and unified standards arrived over a decade after launch. Its value is real, but bounded by what it ships—not what it promises.
SQL
SQL didn’t invent relational databases—it weaponised Codd’s model by making it usable.
General Atomics MQ-1 Predator
It did not invent drone warfare—but it industrialised the kill chain.