П.В. Сингер — новинки

An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this groundbreaking book - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow

America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.

After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of shocking catastrophes unfolds, the two find themselves investigating a conspiracy whose mastermind is using cutting-edge tech to rip the nation apart. To stop this new breed of terrorist, their only hope is to forge a new type of partnership.

Burn-In is especially chilling because it is something more than a pulse-pounding read: every tech, trend, and scene is drawn from real world research on the ways that our politics, our economy, and even our family lives will soon be transformed. Blending a techno-thriller’s excitement with nonfiction’s insight, Singer and Cole illuminate the darkest corners of the world soon to come.

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Питер Уоррен Сингер (род. 1974) — американский политический теоретик, сотрудник Брукингского института.

Питер Сингер специализируется на исследованиях современных форм войны и активно консультирует ФБР, армию США и Разведывательное управление Министерства обороны США. Среди его работ можно найти работы и о частных военных кампаниях, и о детях-солдатах, и о кибервойне. Но останавливаемся мы на книге, обращенной в завтрашний день. «Wired for War» — это в первую очередь попытка решить вопрос о нравственной составляющей войны, которую за человека ведут машины. Однако Сингер не замыкается на морали, открывая правовой, политический, экономический горизонты этой проблемы. Казалось бы, замена людей на поле боя машинами выгодна во всех отношениях. Роботы способны произвести настоящую революцию во всей нашей культуре войны:

«когда умирает робот, вам не надо писать письмо его матери»;

«вы тратите 12 часов на войну, поражая цели и сея смерть среди солдат противника, а потом прыгаете в машину и через 20 минут уже сидите за обеденным столом, обсуждая с детьми домашнее задание».

Но тут же Сингер предупреждает, что переоценка собственных сил — один из главных триггеров войны, а вера в невиданную мощь технологий, стоящих на вооружении, обеспечивает благодатную почву для взращивания самоуверенности. Не спровоцируют ли амбиции робототехников, стремящихся усовершенствовать свои боевые машины и подороже продать их политикам, новые, более разрушительные войны?

From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by hostile fire in the “War on Terrorism” was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy. Children at War is the first comprehensive examination of a disturbing and escalating phenomenon: the use of children as soldiers around the globe. Interweaving explanatory narrative with the voices of child soldiers themselves, P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in modern warfare, introduces the brutal reality of conflict, where children are sent off to fight in war-torn hotspots from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He explores the evolution of this phenomenon, how and why children are recruited, indoctrinated, trained, and converted to soldiers and then lays out the consequences for global security, with a special case study on terrorism. With this established, he lays out the responses that can end this horrible practice. What emerges is not only a compelling and clarifying read on the darker reality of modern warfare, but also a clear and urgent call for action.

Some have claimed that'War is too important to be left to the generals, 'but P. W. Singer asks'What about the business executives?'Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals.

This new'Privatized Military Industry'encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored.

In this book, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering.

The privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the entrance of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises a series of troubling questions'for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.