DARPA AT THE PENTAGON IS WORKING TO CREATE TRANSHUMANISTIC ‘NEURAL INTERFACE’ TO CONNECT SOLDIER’S BRAINS TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS
The Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology, or N3, program aims to combine the speed and processing power of computers with humans’ ability to adapt to complex situations, DARPA said. In other words, the technology would let people control, feel and interact with a remote machine as though it were a part of their own body.
by Geoffrey Grider
NowTheEndBegins.com
July 18, 2018
THE IDEA OF HUMANS CONTROLLING MACHINES WITH THEIR MINDS HAS SPUN OFF SCI-FI BLOCKBUSTERS LIKE “PACIFIC RIM” AND ENTIRE SUBGENRES OF FOREIGN FILM, BUT WHILE TODAY SKYSCRAPER-SIZED FIGHTING ROBOTS EXIST ONLY ON THE BIG SCREEN, THE PENTAGON IS BUILDING TECHNOLOGY THAT COULD ONE DAY MAKE THEM A REALITY.
How far we’ve come from the days, just one generation ago, where a computer filled an entire room and was run on paper punch cards with slots cut into them, to billions of people carrying smart phones in their pockets many times more powerful the NASA computers that first sent man to the moon.
Today, DARPA is working at a frantic pace to connect computer technology with the human brain in a way that previously was confined only to sci-fi books and movies. This new frontier, known as neural interface technology, works by embedding chips into the human body which then talk with any computer technology you direct it to. I think you can see where all this is leading to, can’t you?
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16,17 (KJV)
FROM NEXTGOV: Today, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is selecting teams to develop a “neural interface” that would both allow troops to connect to military systems using their brainwaves and let those systems transmit back information directly to users’ brains.
The Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology, or N3, program aims to combine the speed and processing power of computers with humans’ ability to adapt to complex situations, DARPA said. In other words, the technology would let people control, feel and interact with a remote machine as though it were a part of their own body.
“From the first time a human carved a rock into a blade or formed a spear, humans have been creating tools to help them interact with the world around them,” said Al Emondi, the program manager at DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office. “The tools we use have grown more sophisticated over time … but these still require some form of physical control interface—touch, motion or voice. What neural interfaces promise is a richer, more powerful and more natural experience in which our brains effectively become the tool.”
DARPA BEGAN STUDYING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACHINES IN THE 1960S, AND WHILE TECHNOLOGY THAT MERGES THE TWO MAY SOUND FAR-FETCHED, THE ORGANIZATION ALREADY PROVED IT’S POSSIBLE.
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