The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and DronesConfronting a New Age of Threat Audiobook (Free)

From drone warfare in theMiddle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the USgovernment has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesomeeffect. But what goes on when ordinary folks have the same tools at theirfingertips? Advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean thatmore people than ever before get access to potentially dangeroustechnologies-from drones to computer networks and biological agents-that couldbe used to assault states and personal about The Future of Assault: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones-Confronting a New Age of Threat residents alike.

In The Future ofViolence, law and security experts Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blumdetail the myriad possibilities, challenges, and enormous risks within themodern world and argue that if our national governments can no longeradequately protect us from harm, they’ll lose their legitimacy. Consequently,governments, businesses, and residents must rethink their protection initiatives toprotect lives and liberty. With this brave new world where many small brothersare as menacing as any YOUR GOVERNMENT, safeguarding our liberty and privacy mayrequire strong domestic and international security and regulatory controls.Maintaining security nowadays where anyone may attack anyone requires aglobal perspective, with more multinational causes and greater actions toprotect (and protect against) weaker areas who do not yet possess the capabilityto police force their own people. Sketching on political thinkers from Thomas Hobbes tothe Founders and beyond, Wittes and Blum present that, despite recentprotestations to the contrary, security and liberty are mutually supportive,and we must embrace someone to ensure the additional.

The Future of Violence reaches once an introduction to your emergingworld-one where students can print guns with 3-D printers and scientists’manipulations of viruses could be recreated and unleashed by ordinary people-andan authoritative blueprint for how government must adapt in order to surviveand protect us.