The Robot Revolution Is Already Here
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re joined by P.W. Singer, co-author of Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.
- The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
- Stray thoughts on the Bonus Army.
- The future of policing might be AI and that’s terrifying.
- Domestic terrorism is about to get even weirder than it already is.
- War has already changed.
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| 0:20.0 | We have all of these sensors out there that are gathering data. We've got more unmanned systems, drones. |
| 0:23.7 | We've got more people on email pushing me things from databases. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm getting all this data being pushed to me. |
| 0:31.0 | Isn't it great? |
| 0:32.3 | No, actually it's the opposite it's info overload right |
| 0:48.8 | you're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. |
| 0:50.3 | Here are your hosts. Hello and welcome to War College. I am your host Matthew Galt. Today we are talking |
| 1:08.9 | about a new kind of science fiction book, one that has lots of citations. |
| 1:16.4 | The author of that book, P. W. Singer, |
| 1:18.4 | or should I say co-author of that book, P. W. Singer, |
| 1:20.9 | is here with us today, sir, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:24.6 | Oh, I appreciate you having me on. |
| 1:26.3 | All right, so the book is Burn In, a novel of the real robotic revolution. |
| 1:31.1 | What is Burn-In about? |
| 1:33.0 | So Burn-In is a new kind of book. It's a cross of novel and non-fiction. |
| 1:40.0 | Now I know that sounds a little bit different, but what it is is on one hand it's a techno thriller. |
| 1:45.6 | You follow a veteran turned FBI agent who is hunting down a new kind of terrace |
| 1:52.1 | through the streets of Washington DC of the future. |
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