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The Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones. Confronting A New Age of Threat (Hardcover)
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The Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones. Confronting A New Age of Threat (Hardcover)
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From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the
National Security Agency, the U.S. government has harnessed the
power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what
happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their
fingertips? Advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and
robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to
potentially dangerous technologies,from drones to computer networks
and biological agents,which could be used to attack states and
private citizens alike.In The Future of Violence , law and security
experts Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum detail the myriad
possibilities, challenges, and enormous risks present in the modern
world, and argue that if our national governments can no longer
adequately protect us from harm, they will lose their legitimacy.
Consequently, governments, companies, and citizens must rethink
their security efforts to protect lives and liberty. In this brave
new world where many little brothers are as menacing as any Big
Brother, safeguarding our liberty and privacy may require strong
domestic and international surveillance and regulatory controls.
Maintaining security in this world where anyone can attack anyone
requires a global perspective, with more multinational forces and
greater action to protect (and protect against) weaker states who
do not yet have the capability to police their own people. Drawing
on political thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to the Founders and
beyond, Wittes and Blum show that, despite recent protestations to
the contrary, security and liberty are mutually supportive, and
that we must embrace one to ensure the other. The Future of
Violence is at once an introduction to our emerging world,one in
which students can print guns with 3-D printers and scientists'
manipulations of viruses can be recreated and unleashed by ordinary
people,and an authoritative blueprint for how government must adapt
in order to survive and protect us.
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