Annie Jacobsen - Inside DARPA - The Pentagons Brain - Sept 29, 2015

Sadly, this is old information now, most know this. Things have advanced since 2015. How much worse have things been since then?  This is a reminder, not to forget and be ready for knew technologies and other things that will push the limits of our privacy,  through monitoring and censorship by 'Big Brother'. - Cynthia 

This video and following description are from YouTube at 'World Affairs'. Also at, https://www.worldaffairs.org/event-calendar/event/1386#.YwB-4HbMLIU

The internet, GPS, voice recognition programs like Siri – many of the technologies that we use today were developed with national security in mind. These inventions and many others began as projects of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department’s secretive military research agency. For more than fifty years, DARPA has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The genesis of that mission and of DARPA itself dates to the Cold War and the launch of Sputnik in 1957, and a commitment by the United States that it would be the initiator and not the victim of strategic technological surprises. Working with innovators inside and outside of government, DARPA has repeatedly delivered on that mission, transforming revolutionary concepts and even seeming impossibilities into practical capabilities. The ultimate results have included not only game-changing military capabilities such as precision weapons and stealth technology, but also major innovations in modern civilian society.

How do they do it? What makes this military organization such fertile ground for invention? What technologies with useful daily applications have failed to enter into civilian use? Can Silicon Valley learn from DARPA, or vice versa? Drawing on extensive interviews, declassified memos and inside sources, investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen will share insights into this top-secret organization.

Annie Jacobsen
Investigative Journalist and Author

Andrew Becker
Reporter, The Center for Investigative Reporting