Episode · a16z Podcast · 2017-06-04
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Rules, guidelines, regulations, and “laws” are all sometimes used interchangeably — but what’s legal and what isn’t is far more complex when it comes to policy, especially when politics (and technology) enters the picture.
Benjamin Wittes discussed The Future of Violence by Benjamin Wittes and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Future of Violence
Discussed“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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Future of Violence
“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”
Passing The Fog of Law
“we were originally going to call the site fog of law about to launch it we found out that the great scholar Michael Glennon had a book coming out called fog of law and so we had to switch gears and we used law fair instead”