Remote-controlled aircraft and robot technology can be used for bad just as easily as for good. Americans know their government uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, on military and intelligence missions from surveillance to assassination. But drones are no longer the sole domain of the military, and just as with many new technologies, they […]
The world Marc Goodman outlines in exhaustive detail in his book, Future Crimes, is as real, gritty, and frightening as life outside the Matrix. Indeed, Goodman opens his book by quoting the classic sci-fi epic. Do you want the red pill or the blue pill? “Remember, all I’m offering is the truth.” He would know. […]
Marc Goodman of the Future Crimes Institute and Singularity University shares his thinking on the promise — and threat — of drones. For most people, drones are flying robots irrevocably associated with killing, warfare or even war crimes over the skies of Iraq or Afghanistan. Yet what started out as a purely military technology is rapidly migrating […]
With technology advancing at exponential rates, it becomes an open opportunity platform for those within our international society that would seek to threaten others. All are realistic threats, from global crime networks stealing your identity to hidden terror cells 3D printing AK-47 rifle and drones. Marc is asking the questions out loud, and bringing some […]
Rapid advances in robotics technology for the battlefield and policing could promote a new breed of copycat “garden shed” robot criminals. The Coming Robot Crime Wave