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Author's Note: Why a Book on Robots and War? | p. 1 |
The Change We are Creating | |
Introduction: Scenes from a Robot War | p. 19 |
Smart Bombs, Norma Jeane, and Defecating Ducks: A Short History of Robotics | p. 42 |
Robotics for Dummies | p. 66 |
To Infinity and Beyond: The Power of Exponential Trends | p. 94 |
Coming Soon to a Battlefield Near You: The Next Wave of Warbots | p. 109 |
Always in the Loop? The Arming and Autonomy of Robots | p. 123 |
Robotic Gods: Our Machine Creators | p. 135 |
What Inspires Them: Science Fiction's Impact on Science Reality | p. 150 |
The Refuseniks: The Roboticists Who Just Say No | p. 170 |
What Change is Creating for Us | |
The Big Cebrowski and the Real RMA: Thinking About Revolutionary Technologies | p. 179 |
"Advanced" Warfare: How We Might Fight with Robots | p. 205 |
Robots That Don't Like Apple Pi: How the U.S. Could Lose the Unmanned Revolution | p. 237 |
Open-Source Warfare: College Kids, Terrorists, and Other New Users of Robots at War | p. 261 |
Losers and Luddites: The Changing Battlefields Robots Will Fight On and the New Electronic Sparks of War | p. 279 |
The Psychology of Warbots | p. 297 |
YouTube War: The Public and Its Unmanned Wars | p. 315 |
Changing the Experience of War and the Warrior | p. 326 |
Command and Control... Alt-Delete: New Technologies and Their Effect on Leadership | p. 344 |
Who Let You in the War? Technology and the New Demographics of Conflict | p. 360 |
Digitizing the Laws of War and Other Issues of (Un) Human Rights | p. 382 |
A Robot Revolt? Talking About Robot Ethics | p. 413 |
Conclusion: The Duality of Robots and Humans | p. 428 |
Acknowledgments | p. 437 |
Notes | p. 439 |
Index | p. 483 |
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