Zygmunt Bauman on drones is the best model we have for the writer of the future:

"The new generation of drones will stay invisible while making everything else accessible to view; they will stay immune while rendering everything else vulnerable... The next generation drones will see all while staying comfortably invisible – literally as well as metaphorically . . . There will be no shelter – and for no one...

Everything private is now done, potentially, in public – and is potentially available to public consumption; and remains available for the duration, till the end of time . . . And let me add: the choice between the public and the private is slipping out of people's hands"

Bauman is right about the erosion of anonymity, just as he is right about the new forms of surveillance that will occasion that erosion. Art and literature will need to reclaim the power of anonymity by appropriating the very strategies that threaten it.

Staying invisible while making everything else accessible to view is the work of the writers and artists of the future, and the only workable creative model and mode of resistance in a society progressively constrained by surveillance and limited modes of identity.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/28/end-anonymity-technology-internet