how DARPA is remaking our world, from the internet to artificial limbs /
Michael Belfiore.
1st Harper pbk. ed.
New York :
Harper,
2010.
xxiii, 295 pages ;
21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
An arm and a leg -- A special-projects agency -- The intergalactic computer network -- The robot will see you now -- Backseat drivers -- Crazy-ass things -- The final frontier -- Power to the people.
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Details the efforts of DARPA--the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--a maverick and controversial agency whose futuristic work has had an amazing military and civilian application, from driverless cars to GPS to mind-controlled robotic limbs.