About the Author:
Benjamin Wittes is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School. Together, they direct the Harvard Law School-Brookings Project on Law and Security. Wittes and Blum live in Washington, DC, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, respectively.
Review:
''Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum have written a compelling and provocative book about an important topic we have not adequately faced: managing catastrophic risk in a technologically advanced society. I strongly recommend this book even for people who will not agree with the authors' conclusions.'' --Bruce Schneier, author of Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
''In a globalized world facing widely distributed and technologically empowered threats, Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum develop a new and compelling vision for a twenty-first century legal and security architecture. Political leaders, judges, and citizens will find important guidance in this book.'' --Michael Chertoff, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
''A book that manages to meld Hobbes, James Bond, science fiction, and Supreme Court decisions is a rare read. All the more impressive when it takes a complex set of urgent questions about the intersection of technology, security, and liberty, and offers insights and at least the beginnings of answers. Violence will be always with us, but its forms are changing in ways that challenge our ability to respond to and regulate it.'' --Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America foundation
''What the authors achieve in this work is to raise the profile of issues at the intersection of biology, technology, and government policy. Posing the challenges to safety now, before the technologies have matured, will give law and policymakers a head start on some of the issues they raise, while others - such as health monitoring of virulent diseases - have already made waves globally. Recommended to readers of governmental policy and the ethics of technology, who will be especially interested in this timely work.'' --Library Journal
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