Book · 2015 · Political Science
The Future of Violence
Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones-Confronting A New Age of Threat
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Benjamin Wittes yeah look I wrote with Gabby bloom the basic thesis of it is that not merely can the US government using a… 3
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“yeah look I wrote with Gabby bloom the basic thesis of it is that not merely can the US government using a drone strike you from 5,000 miles away and kill you but every individual in the world can strike each other from the same distance”
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“and so the question that we took on in the book as a sort of governance question is how do you govern a world in which anyone can attack anyone from anywhere and the idea is that the technologies give people both heightened capacity to participate in defense but also heightened vulnerability to attack”
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“and so you know the the question that we dealt with in the book is how do you imagine governing such a world in which governments corporations individuals all have both of ulnar ability to remote transnational attack but also capacity to engage in it”
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“our conversation covers the law and technology of warfare from military drones cyber security and encryption to geopolitics and the future of violence which is the title of a book he co-authored with Gabriela Bloom”