''Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century'' (Penguin, 2009) is a best-selling book by
P. W. Singer. It explores how science fiction has started to play out on modern day battlefields, with
robots used more and more in war.
About the book
For the book research, Singer, a senior fellow at
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in e ...
, interviewed hundreds of robot scientists, science fiction writers, soldiers, insurgents, politicians, lawyers, journalists, and human rights activists from around the world.
Even before publication, the work had already been featured in the video game
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, as well as in presentations to audiences as diverse as the
U.S. Army War College,
Air Force Institute of Technology and the National Student Leadership Conference. Singer's 2009 book tour included stops on NPR's
Fresh Air, the
Daily Show with
Jon Stewart, the opening of the
TED conference,
Military robots and the future of war
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and presentations at 75 venues around the United States. The book was a non-fiction book of the year by the Financial Times
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and named to the official reading lists for the US Air Force
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, US Navy
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, and Royal Australian Navy
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.
See also
* Virtual battlefield
*Unmanned undersea vehicle
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a robot that travels underwater without requiring input from an operator. AUVs constitute part of a larger group of undersea systems known as unmanned underwater vehicles, a classification that includ ...
* Paul Virilio
References
External links
P.W. Singer Author website
''Wired for War'' book website
NPR Fresh Air interview
Pritzker Military Library lecture
2009 non-fiction books
Technology books
American non-fiction books
Non-fiction books about war
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