Why I Made This Future

Peter W. Singer On Why His ‘Robot Revolution’ Is Inevitable

His sci-fi novel about WWIII got him invited to the White House. He thinks his next one, about A.I., will do more than that.

Brian Merchant
OneZero
Published in
15 min readMay 21, 2020

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A robotic arm welding machinery as sparks fly around it.
Photo: Cavan Images/Cavan/Getty Images

Why I Made This Future is a recurring feature that invites speculative fiction authors

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Brian Merchant
OneZero

Senior editor, OneZero, books, futures, fiction. Author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, founder of Terraform @ Motherboard @ VICE.