Abishur Prakash

In this book, Prakash tells the story of how nations are using technology to rapidly “unplug” from the established order and chart new, independent paths for themselves. At the same time, technology firms, the new global stakeholders, are challenging governments for control of the world. This book explores how the systems, institutions and ideas that have governed the world since the end of World War II are starting to collapse, and what is rising in their place. With technology, the world is moving in a direction where economies and societies are starting to disconnect from one another and where cultures and alliances are breaking apart. Now, new “lines” are being drawn everywhere – from immigration to market access to global trade – that will change the future in unfamiliar ways. From heads of state to Fortune 500 companies to megacities, the strategies of everyone will be reconfigured by the vertical world. The new geography of the world is vertical. It will challenge the fortunes and fates of everybody.

Next Geopolitics: The Future of World Affairs (Technology) is a groundbreaking book on how new technologies, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, embryo editing, space colonization and more will transform world affairs. Written by a leading geopolitical futurist, each of the eight chapters revolve around provocative scenarios, like which country is responsible for a designer baby that is designed in the United Kingdom but born in India, and how will governments decide what is an act of war in the age of autonomous robots and artificial intelligence? The book has been purposely written to be short and straight to the point, with the imagined reader being able to finish the book during a flight from New York to Tokyo, or London to Hong Kong. If you are looking for a rare look into the wave of disruption heading your way, and how countries will be jolted, pick up this book as it is redefining the word geopolitics and giving a new meaning to the future.

What would you do if your country went to war because of an algorithm? Or, what would you do if robots began talking with one another, and created their own battlefield plans without humans? These questions might sound “out there.” But, in fact, they are real possibilities. All over the world, a new breed of machines and systems are being developed for war. They will not be controlled by people. They will be fully-autonomous, and armed. Some call these new machines and systems, “autonomous weapons.” But, there is another expression for them: killer robots. Soon, warfare and world affairs might not be controlled only by humans. Alongside humans, there may be killer robots that could make all kinds decisions. The decisions killer robots make could transform global power, give nations a new competitive edge, or even lead to major conflicts. For the first time, technology will be making decisions, and humans will be playing catch up. From the mind of Abishur Prakash, the world’s leading geopolitical futurist and author of the groundbreaking Next Geopolitics book series, comes a book that dives deep into killer robots, and what they mean for the world. It goes beyond the common fears of killer robots taking over the world, and examines areas that have not been touched on before, such as: What kind of ethics should exist to control killer robots? How might killer robots change geopolitics? What role will defense and technology companies play? How can institutions utilize killer robots? And much, much more. This book is for those leaders who believe killer robots are on the horizon. It is for those leaders who believe a new era for warfare and world affairs is about to begin. It is for those leaders who seek to prepare their countries and companies for an age where killer robots may make decisions that change the global economy, societies, political systems, and humanity itself.

From the mind of Abishur Prakash, the world’s leading geopolitical futurist and author of Next Geopolitics: Volume One and Two, comes the first book to examine how AI could transform geopolitics. Building on more than 6 months of research, this book paints 12 groundbreaking scenarios of how AI could take geopolitics in a new direction. By looking at areas like ethics, trade and bias, this book goes where no other professor, pundit or publication has gone before. This book will guide leaders, visionaries, investors and policy makers through a world of geopolitics that has no precedent, where for the first time, countries will compete and clash over a technology that everyone wants but nobody fully understands.