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Hey, what’s going on with the Robopocalypse movie? Get the inside scoop on it along with a rousing discussion about drone warfare, robot Sasquatch and the most annoying bots from television and the movies in my interview with Amped author Daniel H. Wilson.
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The future gets a little closer – and scarier – every day: the United States Navy has sent out a call to the weapons industry to develop shipboard solid-state laser beam weapons. The Navy’s specifications call for a combat system that they can use to shoot down enemy drones, both the flying and maritime kind. Let it all sink in: We’re now at a state of technological innovation where we’re using laser beams to shoot enemy robots.
Roboticist and writer Daniel H. Wilson is the author of several books, including How to Survive A Robot Uprising, Robopocalypse and, most recently, Amped:
In Amped, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that [...]
Over the course of four books bestselling non-fiction author Neal Bascomb has written about some of history’s most exciting stories, from the capture of Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann to the infamous mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. In his fifth and most recent book, The New Cool, the award-winning author captures a look at history [...]
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Daniel H. Wilson is the contributor for this week’s Take Five, a regular series where we ask authors and editors to share five facts about their latest books. Wilson is the author of Robopocalypse, which will be available for purchase on June 7:
They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in [...]
Rapture, schampture. We say the end of the world begins on June 7 with the release of real-life roboticist and author Daniel H. Wilson’s novel Robopocalypse. It’s a pulse-pounding, blockbuster of a book, a science fiction near-future adventure with all the trimmings: hero hackers, grizzled soldiers, survivors and more all teaming up to defend humanity [...]
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The robots are coming! And they won’t stop until each and every one of us are crushed under their steely treads. Doubleday* plans to welcome their shiny metal overlords, and to do it right, they’ll need a video trailer as electrifying as they are. They need your help—and are willing to pay handsomely for it. [...]
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Meanwhile, with our own armed forces waging war by Predator drone and bomb-sniffing bots, one must wonder if a real robot apocalypse could really happen. For an answer to that, I turned to P.W. Singer, a Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and the author of several books, including Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.
Read MoreRobots! They’re everywhere, from the operating room of your local hospital (you do trust Dr. McClampsy, right?) to right under your feet, teaching your kids valuable lessons (like don’t tick off any teacher that can fire photon beams from its eyes). Sometimes they can even be found “guarding” our nation’s radioactive waste – a great [...]
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