The most famous name in American innovation today isn’t Apple or Google. It’s DARPA.
“That DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, runs with the big dogs of commercial innovation reflects the importance of science and technology to national security. War, not necessity, is the mother of invention. ”
Also, DARPA, the agency that brought us the internet, is pursuing the “Avatar Project” wherein a soldier can partner with a robot.
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