Just like that the future is here… Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution is out today in print, e-book, and audio (which is a superb narration).

This year marks a decade since I left a career in journalism writing about the defense industry and other national security stories for The Wall Street Journal. Since then I have appreciated that the things we don’t do are as important as those we wholly commit ourselves to. This book is proof. And when we do push toward a seemingly far-off go...