> Finally, laypeople will benefit from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) mad scientist projects
Yeah, because that whole Internet thing and GPS didn't really count for much...
DARPA's Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Could Be on the Market in Four Years
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Re: DARPA's Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Could Be on the Market in Four Years
#22Sigh, why does this have to come out of the military industrial machine? Little known fact: over 1,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have lost a limb (out of 41,000 wounded that survived because of more advanced medicine). I hope they don't use this development to justify that it's okay because we certainly don't talk about it much otherwise.
Historically speaking, the majority of innovations take place as a consequence of war. Advancements in aircraft, electronics and industrial processes, medicine are all prime examples. Read up on the technological breakthroughs that were expedited by world war II that might have other otherwise not taken place. Think about the mass production of penicillin and skin grafts. Necessity breeds innovation.
Re: DARPA's Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Could Be on the Market in Four Years
#23At first, I thought that it would be very cool to have such an arm, for a second entertaining the thought of someone chopping their arm off just so they could be a cyborg. However, a moment later, I thought "three arms", and immediately I saw the improvement.
I bet some rich guy will soon turn into some robo-Shiva.