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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wittes, Benjamin, author.

Blum, Gabriella, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security.

Security, International.

Internal security.

Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Technology.

Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Information technology.

Civil rights.

Violence--Prevention.

Violence.

Crime prevention.

Physical Description:

324 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, [2015]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780465089741

0465089747

OCLC:

890807937