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“No matter what A1 Gore says, these are the guys who really did invent the Internet.”
Among other things, DARPA created the Saturn 5 rocket (he described NASA as a DARPA spinoff) and most recently Belle, the world’s first “telekinetic monkey,” as Garreau put it.
By virtue of intense exposure to computer games and a brain implant the size of a baby aspirin, Belle, who lives at Duke University in North Carolina, manipulated via computer line a robotic arm some 600 miles away at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
A real, five monkey, the technology-aided creature used only her “thoughts” to move the robotic arm.
That kind of technology someday might permit fighter pilots to control their crafts more precisely or help the disabled walk, Garreau said.
“You blur the distinction between the mind and machine,” he said.
What we’re made of
Garreau, 57, is the author of two national bestsellers, “Edge City: Life on the New Frontier” and “The Nine Nations of North America.” He said he cares less about technology than about “culture” and “values” and how they influence the application of technology.
He wants to know “what makes people tick.”
In “Radical Evolution,” Garreau provides three scenarios, which he calls “Heaven,”
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