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citation needed.
Nah. We can hypothesize very conservatively based off of what we knew existed in the 1960s-- agency issued suicide pills, and remotely detonated explosive molar implants to prevent squealing (albeit with a quite short range because of technical limitations at the time).
As background he pointed out that a lot of ideas that are fundamental to our current understanding of science and technology were at one time considered crazy and impractical. Now, most ideas that we today think are crazy or impractical, are in fact crazy or impractical. But it's likely that a tiny few will be transformative. DARPA's job is to seriously test and cull for the good ideas. Once they find a good idea, they hand it off (as they did the Internet).
This can lead to some science-fiction-sounding headlines (like this one). But the truth is that DARPA has no idea if they will work. So when it comes to news coverage of DARPA, you have to bring a big grain of salt. News media love to report crazy-sounding stories, and frankly it seems like DARPA enjoys having a science-fiction reputation. That doesn't mean the programs are "real," the way we think of other government programs like the F-35 or Medicaid.
I am wondering if this can be used two ways and if the soldiers with this implant are willing to take the risks. Assuming that a soldier has been captured by enemy forces and he has knowledge of vital information. What are the chances that using the implant they can "fry" the soldier brain to avoid giving the enemy those vital information ?
I'm more interested what are the chances of soldier going "insane" just before giving testimony to court/senate about "some things that people in the control of that chip would like to bury"? Or even having a stroke or epilepsy attack...
The comments on that article are crazy. How did so many nutters find it and comment on it so quickly?
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Nah. We can hypothesize very conservatively based off of what we knew existed in the 1960s-- agency issued suicide pills, and remotely detonated explosive molar implants to prevent squealing (albeit with a quite short range because of technical limitations at the time).
citation still needed. Don't confuse 60s TV shows with reality.
I do question exploding molar implants, however... that seems like something straight out of a cheesy spy movie. If those do exist I'd love to see what the idea in using them was, because that's kind of funny.
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This probably already exists. I don't believe they'd need to fry the brain, just explode it or titrate certain drugs.
citation needed.
If I was cynical, I would say that this is the perfect machevielan scheme: Send you poorest people to fight your dirty wars, then when they come back broken, use them as guinea pigs ...
1) Suppress the empathy response; 2) Implement a kill-switch for rogue units.
:-)
"Interface" by Neal Stephenson and George Jewsbury