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Contents |
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Editor and Contributors |
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Acronyms |
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1 Robots and Political Economy |
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Utopia or Reality? |
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Human Prosperity and Peace |
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Information and the Robotic Revolution |
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References |
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2 The Politics of Global Value Chains |
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Introduction |
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Origins and Scope of the GVC |
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IPR and Corporate Hegemony |
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Transnational Corporations and Contract Manufacturers |
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ECM, Labor, and the Race to the Bottom |
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Automation, Change, and Adjustment |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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3 Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-state Symbiosis |
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4 Policy Implications of People Analytics and the Automated Workplace |
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Introduction |
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People Analytics |
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Artificial Intelligence and Software Algorithms |
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Robotics |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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5 Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care |
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Introduction |
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Philosophy of Medical Technology |
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Three Examples |
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Discussion |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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6 Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation |
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Weapons Grade Law Enforcement |
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Lethal Robots and the Repressive State Apparatus |
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The Shattered Laws of Robotics |
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Radically Humanized Technology? |
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Thinking Fromm’s Futures in Blomkamp’s Elysium and Chappie |
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Concluding Remarks |
135 |
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References |
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7 The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation |
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Introduction |
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A Brief History of Bots |
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A Bot Timeline |
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Automated Actors and Political Communication |
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Units of Analysis: Old, New, and Aggregate |
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Understanding Networks |
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Understanding Software and Algorithms |
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Understanding Modifications to Classical Units of Analysis |
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Automation, Qualitative Methods, and STS |
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Reconsidering Without Reinventing: Key Concepts in Ethnography of Information |
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The “Technically” Social: Challenges to Theory and Method |
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When Substrate Becomes Substance: Implications for Communication |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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8 The Safe Hand: Liquidity, Money, and Financial Innovation |
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Safe Assets, Financial Innovation, and Financial Technology |
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The Financial Crisis and the Safe Assets Debate |
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The Nature of Liquidity and Money as a Means-in-Itself |
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Money and Financial Innovation: Some Historical Episodes |
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The Chartalist Turn: How American Farmers Became a Constituency of Credit |
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Financial Innovation in a Chartalist World |
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References |
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9 Against Our Better Judgment: Practical Wisdom in an Age of Smart(er) Machines |
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The Rise of the Machines |
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Becoming Dangerous Stupid |
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Wicked Problems and Practical Wisdom |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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10 Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision-Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory? |
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References |
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11 Diplomacy’s Lesson’s Learned: First World War Submarine Warfare and the 21st Century Drone |
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Lesson One: Patience |
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Lesson Two: Clarity |
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Final Thoughts |
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12 Conflict, Cohesion, and Comrades in Arms: Social Implications of Robotics in the Military |
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The Military of Tomorrow: Robotically Enhanced |
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Military Robotics and the Likelihood of Revolutionary Change |
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Problem One: The Traditional Understanding of Military Leadership |
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Replicating or Reproducing Military Leadership in a Robotic Age: Ethical Dilemmas |
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A New Definition of Leadership |
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Problem Two: A New Paradigm of Unit Cohesion |
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Conclusion |
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13 Robots Writing Chinese and Fighting Underwater |
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Future US Directions in Military Robotics |
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Robotics Development in China: Institutional Setting |
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Military Robotics in China |
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Ethics and Diplomacy |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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14 Armed Drones: Automation, Autonomy, and Ethical Decision-Making |
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Autonomy and Ethical Decision-Making |
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Air Power, Just War and Ethical Hierarchy |
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Historical Air Power and Linear Ethical Hierarchy |
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Current Drone Use and Linear Ethical Hierarchy |
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Increasing Automation, Autonomy and in Bello Ethics |
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The Challenge of Autonomous Lethal Drones to Linear Ethical Hierarchies |
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Political Decision-Making and the Ethics of Resorting to Lethal Autonomous Drones |
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Summary |
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References |
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15 Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant |
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Why Technology Can Lead to a Reduction in Casualties on the Battlefield |
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Addressing Some of the Counter-Arguments |
330 |
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A Plea for the Noncombatant |
331 |
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The Way Forward? |
332 |
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16 Outlook for Prosperity and Peace in the Emergent Global Political Economy of Robots |
336 |
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References |
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Index |
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