So I'm Peter W Singer, professor of
practice here at Arizona State. I'm also
author of multiple books on changes in
technology, national security and also
a strategists at New America - a think tank in Washington D.C.
that's a partner of ASU. I've always
been interested in two areas: one is
politics and history and secondly have
always been interested in the cross
between technology and science fiction
and science fiction becoming real. The
books that I've been writing explored
these issues of change. Changes in
everything from new technologies like
robotics. Changes in new types of
threats like cyber security. Changes in
warfare. To even changes in the types of
online activities and threats. Issues
that are emerging and great importance
but we don't have a really good handle
on, that's what I've been naturally drawn
to. My first contact point with ASU
organizationally was the partnership
that started off between New America and ASU, specifically looking at the Future
of War and you had the new center here
and then we jointly run a conference out
in Washington D.C. Through that we had all sorts of kind of interactions.
Everything from me coming out to teach
and the course here as a guest lecturer
to in turn had a group of incredible ASU
students as research interns on projects
including the LikeWar book project. I
think what stands out about the program
that ASU is building both in the online
masters but kind of ASU at large is
you see these different methodologies.
You see these different topics coming
together in a multidisciplinary manner.
You see different channels and forms of
communication of teaching that I just
think reflect really the way you not
just ought but need to operate in the
21st century.
