"Useful Fiction," Imaginative Thinking, and National Security Affairs with August Cole
The Strategy Bridge · prbeckman
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Show Notes
In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk with August Cole about how fiction and imaginative thinking can inform how we approach national security affairs. Cole is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. From 2014-2017 he directed the Art of Future Warfare Project which explored creative and narrative works for insight into the future of conflict. He works on creative futures at SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company, and along with Peter Singer he is the author of two novels "Ghost Fleet" and "Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution."