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05-16-09, 12:40 PM
Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push
Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they’ll read each other’s minds.
At least, that’s the hope of researchers at the Pentagon’s mad-science division Darpa. The agency’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $4 million to start up a program called Silent Talk. The goal is to “allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.” That’s on top of the $4 million the Army handed out last year to the University of California to investigate the potential for computer-mediated telepathy.
Freaky if this actually works. But what else might be broadcasted mind to mind amongst a unit?
May you live in interesting times they say ...
Link to Article. (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/pentagon-preps-soldier-telepathy-push/) (oops I know I forgot something)
Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they’ll read each other’s minds.
At least, that’s the hope of researchers at the Pentagon’s mad-science division Darpa. The agency’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $4 million to start up a program called Silent Talk. The goal is to “allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.” That’s on top of the $4 million the Army handed out last year to the University of California to investigate the potential for computer-mediated telepathy.
Freaky if this actually works. But what else might be broadcasted mind to mind amongst a unit?
May you live in interesting times they say ...
Link to Article. (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/pentagon-preps-soldier-telepathy-push/) (oops I know I forgot something)