Posted on 09/28/2015 6:59:34 AM PDT by Van Jenerette
For decades, DARPA, the secretive research arm of the Department of Defense, has dreamed of turning soldiers into cyborgs. And now it’s finally happening. The agency has funded projects that involve implanting chips into soldiers’ brains that they hope will enhance performance on the battlefield and repair traumatized brains once the fog of war has lifted.
“Of the 2.5 million Americans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, 300,000 of them came home with traumatic brain injury,” journalist Annie Jacobsen told NPR. “DARPA initiated a series of programs to help cognitive functioning, to repair some of this damage. And those programs center around putting brain chips inside the tissue of the brain.”
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What is isn't is some super information gathering device. It simply says "I am here and this is my name" when pulsed. If you ask it again it says "I am here and this is my name" .. if you ask it again it says "I am here and this is my name" ..if you ask........
I didn't want to either. The problem is he's very strong from all the walks he takes me on, and when he pulls loose it's because he has a fantasy of belonging to a herd of deer. Last week, he followed interesting scents for miles until he collapsed. It is disturbing that the info about the dangers of "chipping" aren't divulged when it's done. For my guy, it's the only way to save him from his spirit of adventure.
As far as the rest, I wasn't addressing the weird stuff in the article, but what's already possible. Will that stuff happen someday? Who knows....there's so much going on in the world today that doesn't respect human life.
Why is it that the world of RIFTS seems to be less and less sci-fi and more and more sci fact. (for good and ill)
RIFTS
MOM’s (Crazy)
http://rifts.wikia.com/wiki/Crazy
Dr. Carson....paging Dr. Ben Carson.....
I wasn’t familiar with the author.
Active Duty ping.
--Tim McVeigh
The comment was laughed off because it was presented as if the chip had been implanted in his buttocks (literal interpretation).
How long ago was that? (rhetorical, really).
Look what has happened to what we call a 'phone' in 20 years.
Don’t disagree with your statements about DARPA.
I heard good old Annie discussing this on some radio show the other night and she was so far off the rails it wasn’t even funny
And they’re just as safe from hackers as Hillary’s email server.
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