Singer is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution whose book, "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, " projected a vision of the future of war that developers were seeking.

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But the revolution in military robotics does have an Achilles heel, notes Emmanuel Goffi of the French air-force academy in Salon-de-Provence.

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The speculative story is already spreading and consists of the energy extraction revolution, insourcing of manufacturing, technological prowess in Big Data, 3-D manufacturing, robotics, and a housing market recovery.

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