Imagining the next 9/11: Creating fictional narratives to visualize and prevent national security threats. Talking with Peter Singer.

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeAug 24, 202231m

Imagining the next 9/11: Creating fictional narratives to visualize and prevent national security threats. Talking with Peter Singer.

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeAug 24, 202231m

Peter Singer is a strategist and senior fellow with New America, a think tank in Washington. He is also the founder and managing partner of Useful Fiction which creates fictional narratives to help policy makers visualize some of the most complex national security threats like nuclear accidents, bio terrorism, artificial intelligence and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Visualizing before an event can lead to more effective policies to thwart such attacks.

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We are a "deep dive" news podcast, for Americans who get their news from the Internet. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective. Your host Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.

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