P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
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http://www.ted.com In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction -- that now may not be so fictitious. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leadi... Read more
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- -: P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
April 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction -- that now may not be so fictitious. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performance...
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- -: Charlie Rose - Colonel H.R. McMaster
June 2, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Colonel H.R. McMaster is known as one of the leading experts on counterinsurgency warfare in the U.S. military. In 2005-2006 he led the effort to clean out the restive city of Tal Afar in northwest Iraq, and he's recently served as an adviser to Gen. David Petraeus. Here's a look at a recent c...
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- -: Joe Conason - The War on Terror as "Permanent War"
March 19, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=771 Author Joe Conason discusses the concept of "permanent war" as it relates to authoritarian governments, and argues that the Bush Administration's War on Terror constitutes a modern incarnation of this theme. ----- Joe Conason discusse...
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- -: Iraq and the Morality of War - Elie Wiesel
August 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/27/Elie_Wiesel_What_Makes_Us_Moral Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel argues that war is inherently immoral because of the suffering and destruction it entails. Weisel recalls how, in the run-up to the Iraq war, he counseled President Bush against an invasion. ...
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- -: Digital Espionage: Cyber Attacks vs Exploitation
April 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/26/War_and_Law_in_Cyberspace Computer scientist Herb Lin distinguishes between two categories of hostile cyber operations: cyber attack, and cyber exploitation. A cyber attack, he says, is perpetrated to "destroy, degrade, disrupt" an adversary's informa...
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- -: What Happens if the Entire Internet Goes Down? - David Eagleman
April 21, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/01/Six_Easy_Steps_to_Avert_the_Collapse_of_Civilization Neuroscientist David Eagleman asks, "What happens when the Net goes down?" He advocates for a back-up plan modeled after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The facility would be powered by renewable en...
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- -: When Robotic Warfare Goes Wrong: Do We Need New Rules of Combat?
January 10, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/02/P_W_Singer_Wired_For_War In an era of high tech weaponry engaged on front lines around the globe, author P.W. Singer discusses the need to rethink the antiquated rules of war from 1949's Geneva Convention. Should the global community be looking to Sta...
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- -: Virus Delays Iran's Nuclear Capability Until 2015
February 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/19/Abbas_Milani_The_Last_Shah_of_Iran Middle East scholar Abbas Milani discusses a computer virus in Iran's nuclear system that was allegedly created by Israeli and American engineers. "Iran denies that it has been hit," says Milani. The virus may have s...
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- -: The Internet Kill Switch: Is Online Access a Right?
May 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/26/Advancing_the_New_Machine_Communication_Blackouts Eric Blantz, senior director of Inveneo, analyzes the idea of an internet kill switch from a human rights perspective. He argues that until there is a way to make a kill switch that is "democratically ...
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- -: Nancy Pelosi: 'Workers Are People, Too'
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi discusses "class warfare" at The New Yorker Festival 2011. In response to a recent quip from a Republican Presidential candidate that "corporations are people," Pelosi counters, "Workers are ...
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