WE NEED THE UNNECESSARY

or How I Learned To Value The Things You Don't Need To Do

Wayne Gretzky, legend has it, scored his first official in-game goal as a young hockey player here at the Allman Arena in Stratford.

That piece of trivia quickly evaporated from my mind as the squadron of drones took to the sky from just outside the arena. Whirring and blinking then taking position and morphing into various shapes and words in the sk…