For the book research, Singer, a senior fellow at
Brookings Institution, interviewed hundreds of robot scientists, science fiction writers, soldiers, insurgents, politicians, lawyers, journalists, and human rights activists from around the world. the
Daily Show with
Jon Stewart, the opening of the
TED conference, the Royal Court of the
United Arab Emirates and presentations at 75 venues around the United States. The book was a non-fiction book of the year by the
Financial Times and named to the official reading lists for the
US Air Force,
US Navy, and
Royal Australian Navy. ==See also==