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The Resource The future of violence : robots and germs, hackers and drones--confronting a new age of threat, Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum

The future of violence : robots and germs, hackers and drones--confronting a new age of threat, Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum

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"The ability to inflict pain and suffering on large groups of people is no longer limited to the nation-state. New technologies are putting enormous power into the hands of individuals across the world--a shift that, for all its sunny possibilities, entails enormous risk for all of us, and may even challenge the principles on which the modern nation state is founded. In short, if our national governments can no longer protect us from harm, they will lose their legitimacy. Detailing the challenges that states face in this new world, legal scholars Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum controversially argue in [Title TK] that national governments must expand their security efforts to protect the lives and liberty of their citizens. Wittes and Blum show how advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to technologies--from drones to computer networks and biological data--that could possibly be used to extort or attack states and private citizens. Security, too, is no longer only under governmental purview, as private companies or organizations control many of these technologies: internet service providers in the case of cyber terrorism and digital crime, or academic institutions and individual researchers and publishers in the case of potentially harmful biotechnologies. As Wittes and Blum show, these changes could undermine the social contract that binds citizens to their governments"--
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eng
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Publication
Extent
324 pages
Contents
  • The distribution of offensive capability
  • The distribution of vulnerability
  • The distribution of defense
  • Technology, states, and the social order
  • Rethinking privacy, liberty, and security
  • Rethinking legal jurisdiction and the boundaries of sovereignty
  • The security of platforms and the future of surveillance
  • Options for domestic governance
  • Options for international governance
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9780465089741
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The future of violence : robots and germs, hackers and drones--confronting a new age of threat
Title
The future of violence
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robots and germs, hackers and drones--confronting a new age of threat
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Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum
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Language
eng
Summary
"The ability to inflict pain and suffering on large groups of people is no longer limited to the nation-state. New technologies are putting enormous power into the hands of individuals across the world--a shift that, for all its sunny possibilities, entails enormous risk for all of us, and may even challenge the principles on which the modern nation state is founded. In short, if our national governments can no longer protect us from harm, they will lose their legitimacy. Detailing the challenges that states face in this new world, legal scholars Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum controversially argue in [Title TK] that national governments must expand their security efforts to protect the lives and liberty of their citizens. Wittes and Blum show how advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to technologies--from drones to computer networks and biological data--that could possibly be used to extort or attack states and private citizens. Security, too, is no longer only under governmental purview, as private companies or organizations control many of these technologies: internet service providers in the case of cyber terrorism and digital crime, or academic institutions and individual researchers and publishers in the case of potentially harmful biotechnologies. As Wittes and Blum show, these changes could undermine the social contract that binds citizens to their governments"--
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Wittes, Benjamin
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303.601/12
Index
index present
LC call number
UA10.5
LC item number
.W57 2015
Literary form
non fiction
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Blum, Gabriella
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  • National security
  • Security, International
  • Internal security
  • Technology
  • Information technology
  • Civil rights
  • Violence
  • Crime prevention
  • Civil rights
  • Crime prevention
  • Information technology
  • Internal security
  • National security
  • Security, International
  • Technology
  • Violence
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The future of violence : robots and germs, hackers and drones--confronting a new age of threat, Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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rdacarrier
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text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
The distribution of offensive capability -- The distribution of vulnerability -- The distribution of defense -- Technology, states, and the social order -- Rethinking privacy, liberty, and security -- Rethinking legal jurisdiction and the boundaries of sovereignty -- The security of platforms and the future of surveillance -- Options for domestic governance -- Options for international governance
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
324 pages
Isbn
9780465089741
Lccn
2014035741
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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  • (OCoLC)890807937
  • (OCoLC)ocn890807937
Label
The future of violence : robots and germs, hackers and drones--confronting a new age of threat, Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The distribution of offensive capability -- The distribution of vulnerability -- The distribution of defense -- Technology, states, and the social order -- Rethinking privacy, liberty, and security -- Rethinking legal jurisdiction and the boundaries of sovereignty -- The security of platforms and the future of surveillance -- Options for domestic governance -- Options for international governance
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
324 pages
Isbn
9780465089741
Lccn
2014035741
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)890807937
  • (OCoLC)ocn890807937

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