Join us in partnership with New America welcoming P.W. Singer and August Cole discussing their novel Burn-In!
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in a groundbreaking new book—at once a gripping techno-thriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.
Burn-In: A Novel of the REAL Robotic Revolution is a new form of book, a cross of a novel and nonfiction. In the book, authors Peter Warren Singer and August Cole, take the reader on a hunt for a terrorist through the streets of a future Washington DC. Yet baked into the story are over 300 factual explanations and predictions, replete with 27 pages of nonfiction endnotes to show their source from the real world.
This bold new experiment in communicating issues of importance has drawn early praise from an incredibly diverse group, including the current or former heads of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, NATO, CIA, NSA/Cyber Command and LinkedIn to fiction luminaries like the writer of Lost, Watchmen and the new Star Trek movies. You can check out more reviews here.
Of note to recent events is the fiction/nonfiction of Burn-In also connects to a number of issues coming out of the Coronavirus pandemic. Much of the population has been instantly thrown into distance learning and remote work, robots have been deployed into roles ranging from policing curfews to serving in hospitals, and AI tracking of society is scaling to whole new levels. After the outbreak is over, it is unlikely that 100% of these new roles and modes will simply return back. This means that all the tough social, political, legal, moral, security, and even family issues that Burn-In explores and explains are going to come faster in the real world too…
Join New America in welcoming Peter Warren Singer and August Cole for a discussion with Anne-Marie Slaughter on this important new project, taking readers behind the scenes of the project, as well as sharing its real world lessons. Engage in the conversation online by using #BurnInBook and by following @NewAmerica & @Slate.
Participants:
Peter Warren Singer, @peterwsinger Strategist and Senior Fellow, New America
Co-author, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
August Cole, @august_cole Co-author, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
Moderator:
Anne-Marie Slaughter, @SlaughterAM CEO, New America
This is a VIRTUAL EVENT! Register in advance here — and please purchase your copy of Singer’s book here!