Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

For work and for fun

Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by P.W. Singer and August Cole

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I really like P.W. Singer’s books. Wired for War is about the increasing usage of robotics in modern warfare and is on every reading list. He wrote Like War with Emerson Brooking about the weaponization of social media and it is excellent but also terrifying. Also with August Cole he wrote Ghost Fleet, a fictional account of a war with China that attempted to be a realistic possibility by grounding it in truth. Burn-In is like that. Working again with Cole, Burn-In is about an […]

This seems a little less fun everyday

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P.W. Singer and August Cole

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I attended graduate school at the Naval Postgraduate School, run by the U.S. Navy. This book was recommended by everyone I met there.  One of the authors, P.W. Singer, was a guest lecturer while I was a student. I’d already read his other book, Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media and I really liked it. Well, I really appreciated it but liking it might be a tad macabre as it detailed all the things that were happening on social media to influence our opinions. […]

A little too timely

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking

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I picked up this book to be a small break from my all the Steinbeck I’ve been reading lately.  I like to alternate a little between fiction and non-fiction.  Within the non-fiction, I like to mix it up between professional reading and just interesting.  Usually, there is some overlap and I think that applies here.  Also, one of the authors, P.W. Singer is coming to speak at my school next week and I wanted to read it before he arrived.  I read an earlier book […]



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