i would like to thank lindsay weiss for organizing the panel and everything ran so well and the aei leadership and staff for providing a nice home for jeremy rabkin and i to do our research. the book has three points to it. a lot of the rapid advances we are seeing in technology and the economy are coming to military weaponry. if you think about some of the major advances you're seeing in the civilian world, autonomous cars, great advances in robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles we have seen for more than ten years are just the leading-edge of the advances robotics are going to provide to military affairs, much more complex drones, naval vessels that don't need large groups, drones that can operate in the air autonomously, ground vehicles, antimissile defenses which are in the news and our thoughts with regard to north korea. cyber also present the aggregation and rapid manipulation of data in the civilian world, the use of algorithms to carry out everything from trading to electrical systems, social media and the military world. the virus that was allegedly created by the united states and isra