DARPA, the part of the Pentagon in charge of thinking up new and cutting edge technologies to wage wars more effectively, submitted it’s $3.29 billion dollar budget for 2009 earlier this week. So what’s all this cash gonna pay for?
In addition to laser-guided bullets, chips that mimic brain matter, and transparent displays, there is a slew of robotic projects. There are robots that swim and spy; robots that fly and spy; walking-donkey-robots to carry soldiers gear; and, of course, drones equipped with “inexpensive, low weight precision munition that is effective against soft targets”. (Read: people.)
How cool would it be to have a government that spent $3.29 billion dollars a year on clean energy, stem cell research, and robots that save lives instead of take them?
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