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  • The airspace [for the FAA's six drone test sites], under the current schedule, opens up [in] 2015...and so we will see one of the most fundamental shifts in who and how you can use the airspace above us.

    February 26, 2013, Peter W. Singer, National Public Radio

  • Moore’s law is the idea that our technology—particularly our microchips—has doubled in its power capacity just about every 18 months or so. Moore’s law, though, doesn’t stop. If Moore’s law holds true, the way it’s held true over the last forty years, within twenty five years our technologies will be a billion times more powerful than they are today.

    September 4, 2012, Peter W. Singer, ABC News

  • [Unmanned drone] systems are the future. Unfortunately we're not ready for them—everything from our policy to our laws to…ethical questions.

    April 5, 2012, Peter W. Singer, Drone use in the U.S. raise privacy concerns

  • "It's part of a broader shift in how we engage in war, The bottom line is…no more large-scale commitments in terms of troops on the ground..."

    January 26, 2012, Peter W. Singer, In Somalia Rescue, Obama Again Turns To Elite Unit

  • "We can't develop a technology, put it out in the real world and decide after the fact that there needs to be laws and ethics attached to it."

    December 8, 2011, Peter W. Singer, The ethics of unmanned vehicle warfare

  • "War fighters have gone from using physical weapons … to chemical weapons … to electronics with radio waves and computer codes. "

    July 11, 2011, Peter W. Singer, U.S. Is Using Electronic Warfare to Attack in Waves

  • "What we’re seeing is something that was once abnormal becoming the new normal, not just in counterterrorism, but in warfare over all."

    February 19, 2010, Peter W. Singer, Drones Are Playing a Growing Role in Afghanistan

  • "If you're a young student in medicine, you have a code of ethics that tells you what's right and wrong. As a young roboticist, you don't have that code."

    November 2, 2009, Peter W. Singer, Futurists' report acknowledges dangers of smart robots

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