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Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
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From Smithsonian Books, The Department of Mad Scientists is the first trade book ever on DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial agency whose futuristic work has had amazing military and civilian application, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars. Michael Belfiore, author of Rocketeers, visited science research sites across the country to provide this unprecedented look at the people who shape our country’s future technology.
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Michael Belfiore
Michael Belfiore is one of only a handful of freelance journalists covering commercial spaceflight. Born in 1969—the year Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon—Belfiore has always been fascinated by space travel. He lives with his family in Woodstock, New York.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’m so glad I read this book. I’m researching this agency Gor a fiction book and enjoyed it immensely. Well done.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The internet was originally the DARPA-net.America's most under-appreciated agency has transformed our lives and will continue to do so. This is one government department whose budget should never be cut. Read this book to find out why.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nice overview of the secretive research arm of the Department of Defense. Each chapter focuses on a specific research project. Artificial limbs, telepresence medical robots, alternative space transportation systems, robotic cars, stealth planes, super-sonic planes. What more do you need?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As a fervent reader of Wired, I'm generally positively impressed by books written by its contributors and so was looking forward to this story of DARPA by Michael Belfiore. But it turned out to be disappointing: military-heavy and without any critical questioning of the technologies discussed or of their planned use: is the US army happily distilling its own jet fuel from vegetable oil in the middle of a battle zone really going to change the world in the way we want it?