Posted on 10/23/2012 9:01:23 PM PDT by EveningStar
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects -- a robotic hummingbird, a prosthetic arm controlled by thought, and, well, the internet -- that her agency has created by not worrying that they might fail. (Followed by a Q&A with TED's Chris Anderson) ...
(Excerpt) Read more at ted.com ...
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The DoD used to fund all sorts of University Research before the NSF took it over.
They still do.
Wow, that’s an incredibly inspiring talk!!! Thanks for posting!
Wow, that’s an incredibly inspiring talk!!! Thanks for posting!
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Completely worthwhile. Regina Duncan was inspirational, and while Chris Anderson was highly annoying (and probably a liberal), he was right to point out that there are serious potential downsides to these new technologies.
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