Technology and Development

In the News

There is nothing wrong with moderately high-tech industries—Germany has developed a very productive and innovative manufacturing sector based on them.

February 25, 2013, Howard Wial, Chicago Sun-Times

In the News

Detroit can be a petri dish for a lot of different kinds of innovation.

September 12, 2012, Bruce Katz, Detroit Free Press

In the News

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

In the News

For years we’ve been hearing this real Cassandra talk, from guys like Leon Panetta, about how the next Pearl Harbor could be online. It always seemed a little bit out of whack with what we saw in the real world. …This discovery [of the link between Stuxnet and Flame computer worms] gives a much fuller picture of what this much larger campaign of espionage and sabotage entailed. We knew about Stuxnet and we knew about Duqu [another cyber weapon]... And now we’ve got this third, major effort to do all kinds of espionage, and evidence strongly suggests that they’re all linked.

June 11, 2012, Noah Shachtman, The Telegraph

In the News

We now know why they [top administration officials] were making those predictions [of a cyber attack]. They were talking about themselves—not what some outside opponent could do to us, but what we were doing to others...The U.S. has basically endorsed the use of these things publicly, and that does change the game.

June 10, 2012, Noah Shachtman, The Hill

Interview | NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday

Technological Innovations Help Dictators See All

January 22, 2012, John Villasenor

Interview | NPR

War By Remote Control: Drones Make It Easy

November 26, 2011, Peter W. Singer

Podcast

@ Brookings Podcast: Investing in the “Next Wave” of Technology Innovation

June 17, 2011, Darrell M. West

Interview | Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report

Waging War With Robots

June 2011, Peter W. Singer

Podcast

@ Brookings Podcast: Internet Privacy and Security

May 20, 2011, Allan A. Friedman