Aug 12 2009
Book Review: Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
When the book is about robotics and advanced military technology, the reader might expect a more technical writing style – the author offering the full list of specs without too much thought on the art of writing. This is certainly not the case for Wired for War. P. W. Singer actually tells the fascinating story of unmanned machines, their evolution from the time when Nikola Testla demonstrated at the Madison Square Garden that he can control a boat by using radio frequencies to the unmanned vehicle remotely steered using a PlayStation-like controller.
