Matthew Power [1974-2014] was an award-winning freelance print and radio journalist and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine.

Drones, war, science fiction, cybercrime.

TED blog  |  November 2013

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In 2009, political scientist P.W. Singer gave a TED Talk in which he predicted that the growing use of robots in war would change the realities of combat. Four years, and thousands of US drone strikes later, he talks to journalist Matthew Power; an edited version of their conversation follows. 

Blood in the Sand: Killing a Turtle Advocate

Inside the Coast Guard’s Rescue Swimming School