The future of violence : robots and germs, hackers and drones : confronting a new age of threat

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The future of violence : robots and germs, hackers and drones : confronting a new age of threat

Title remainder

robots and germs, hackers and drones : confronting a new age of threat

Statement of responsibility

Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum

Creator

• trueWittes, Benjamin

Contributor

• Blum, Gabriella

Subject

• Civil rights
• Crime prevention
• trueCrime prevention
• trueElectronic surveillance
• trueInformation technology
• Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• trueInternal security
• Internal security
• trueInternational security
• National security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism
• Security, International
• Security, International
• trueTechnological forecasting
• trueTechnology
• Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• trueViolence
• Violence -- Prevention
• Violence -- Prevention
• trueNational security
• COMPUTERS / Security / General
• trueCivil rights

Language

eng

Summary

"From drone warfare in the Middle East to the NSA digital spying, the U.S. government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to terrible effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum reveal that this new world is nearly upon us. Soon, our neighbors will be building armed drones capable of firing a million rounds a minute and cooking powerful viruses based on recipes found online. These new technologies will threaten not only our lives but the very foundation of the modern nation state. Wittes and Blum counterintuitively argue that only by increasing surveillance and security efforts will national governments be able to protect their citizens. The Future of Violence is at once an account of these terrifying new threats and an authoritative blueprint for how we must adapt to survive. "--

Writing style

• trueThoughtful
• trueScholarly

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

303.601/12

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography