Andrew Fox

Devil's Toy Box (eBook, PDF)

Exposing and Defusing Promethean Terrorists

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Promethean technology is one that allows someone of average resources, skills, and intelligence to carry out actions that were once only doable by governments, militaries, or institutions with considerable resources. Essentially, Promethean technologies allow users to create their own weapons of mass destruction. These emerging technologies are increasingly affordable and accessible-and are no more complicated to operate than a satellite TV control box or a smart phone. Although these technologies are a terrifying prospect, the more we know about these dangers, the better we can prepare to head them off. In The Devil's Toy Box, Andrew Fox lays out seven decades of preemptive analysis and shows that while homeland security has explored, in depth, the possible Promethean threats the world faces, it has failed to forecast the most likely attacks. Using fictional scenarios Fox teaches how to predict future threats and how to forecast which ones are likely to be used by bad actors within the next five to ten years. Combining the skills of homeland security experts and the imaginations of speculative fiction writers, he then offers an analytical method to deter, counter, or abate these threats, rather than adopting an attitude of resigned fatalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640125377
• Artikelnr.: 72304879

Autorenporträt

Andrew Fox has worked for the Department of Homeland Security for fifteen years, starting with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He is currently a management and program analyst for a federal homeland security law enforcement agency. Fox is also a prolific writer of speculative fiction, including the Fat White Vampire series.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Parable of the Devil’s Toy Box
1. Future Shock Visits the Subway: The 1995 Aum Shinrikyo Sarin Gas Assault
as a Prototypical Promethean Terror Strike
2. Made in Japan? Or “Overeducated and Underemployed”?
3. Promethean Technologies: Adding Accelerants to the Spreading Fire
4. Endless Threats: Promethean Technology’s Mind-Bending Challenge to
Homeland Security
5. Selecting the Tools to Build a Promethean Spyglass: A Brief Survey of
Seventy Years’ Worth of Forecasting Methods
6. The Core of a Devil’s Toy Box Analytical Team? Science Fiction Writers
7. The Promethean Spyglass: Doing a Devil’s Toy Box Analysis Right
Conclusion: Buy That Fire Insurance Policy!
Notes
Index