P. W. Singer
Autore di Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
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Peter Warren Singer graduated with a BA from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and earned his Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University. Previous career experiences include working for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard mostra altro University, the Balkans Task Force in the U.S. Department of Defense, and the International Peace Academy. He also served as the Defense Policy Task Force coordinator for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Singer is the Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution and was the youngest scholar named a Senior Fellow by the Institution. He has written the following books about contemporary warfare: Corporate Warriors, Children at War, and Wired for War. Corporate Warriors, about private companies providing services to the military, was named best book of the year by the American Political Science Association. Children at War, which examines the role of child soldiers, was recognized as the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book of the Year Award. Wired for War became a New York Times bestseller in the first week of its release and focuses on current technologies being used in warfare, including robotics. Singer is a frequent consultant and commentator and has written numerous articles for major publications including the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and World Policy Journal, as well as spoken on the radio and appeared on television. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2003 (2003) — Author "The Ultimate Military Entrepreneur" — 8 copie
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- Nome legale
- Singer, Peter Warren
- Data di nascita
- 1974
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- Princeton University (AB|1997)
Harvard University (PhD|2001) - Attività lavorative
- political scientist
international relations scholar - Organizzazioni
- Brookings Institution
United States Department of Defense
International Peace Institute - Agente
- Dan Mandel (Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc.)
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- ISBN
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- Preferito da
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We now know what deep fakes and realtime audio-video manipulation can do to the voting public and even warring opponents in realtime conflicts.
The book did not get into 3D, VR, or AR construction, although it could have.
But it did make me realize that not only are we on the cusp of radical changes to how we perceive life and society. We are likely on the cusk of an incredibly different art form.
New “authors” could create memoirs or biographies, for example, that construct avatars are the real thing and walk us through 3-D landscapes and give us the ability to interact with characters in the drama.
We’d certainly need advanced literacy to gauge the truth and beauty in such artworks much as we have modern literary criticism.… (altro)