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Wired for War
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Wired for War (2009) (edit title/settings)

The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

by P. W. Singer (Author) (edit contributors)

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A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself P. W. Singer’s previous two books foretold the rise of private military contractors... read more

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  • “The robot is our answer to the suicide bomber”
  • “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
  • “forces have fought in such ignorance of the enemy's purpose, strength, and leadership”
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  • Napoleon once said, “There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the mind.”
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  • As Albert Einstein advised, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
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  • The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. —ISAAC ASIMOV
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  • The Great War and Modern Memory, was named by Modern Library as one of the twentieth century’s one hundred best nonfiction books.
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  • “network-enabled telepathy.” It sounds otherworldly, but the U.S. government’s National Science Foundation envisions such communication to be possible within the next two decades.
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  • The further backward you look, the further forward you can see. —SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
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  • Robots are machines that are built upon what researchers call the “sense-think-act” paradigm. That is, they are man-made devices with three key components: “sensors” that monitor the environment and detect changes in it, “processors” or “artificial intelligence” that decides how to respond, and “effectors” that act upon the environment in a manner that reflects the decisions, creating some sort of change in the world around a robot. When these three parts act together, a robot gains the functionality of an artificial organism.
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  • Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-first Century.
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  • “The archetype of the new warrior class is a male who has no stake in peace, a loser with little education, no legal earning power, no abiding attractiveness to women and no future. With gun in hand and the spittle of nationalist ideology dripping from his mouth, today’s warrior murders those who once slighted him, seizes the women who avoided him, and plunders that which he would never otherwise have possessed.”
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  • Many remember Hopper for something else. These early computers were difficult to use, and being so big, developed all sorts of problems in the hardware as well as software. One of the most vexing was with the Harvard Mark I’s replacement (the Mark II), which kept inexplicably crashing. Eventually, Hopper’s team figured out that the reason was not faulty programming, but a moth that had become trapped between two relays inside the computer. From then on, computer program glitches have been called “bugs.”
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  1. P. W. Singer (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 1594201986
Page Count: 512

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