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Every book Benjamin Wittes recommended on podcasts
Benjamin Wittes appeared on the a16z Podcast to discuss the legal and technological dimensions of modern warfare, focusing extensively on a book he co-wrote with Gabriella Blum titled The Future of Violence. He explained that the central thesis of the work addresses how technology enables not only government drone strikes from thousands of miles away, but also allows every individual in the world to launch transnational attacks against one another from a distance. Benjamin noted that the book takes on the governance question of how society can manage a world where everyone possesses both a heightened vulnerability to remote attacks and an increased capacity to execute them.
Books recommended by Benjamin Wittes
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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”
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Books Benjamin Wittes wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare | a16z Podcast | 2017-06-04 | 3 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
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”