DARPA and social control in Pynchon,so to speak? or SPAM?

[Mark Kohut]

>From an article in Verve:
 
There are a lot of reasons why DARPA wants to crowdsouce brainwave research. The data can be used to refine soldier training, treat post-traumatic stress disorder, study the effects of torture, triage medical diagnoses on the battlefield, harness the human subconscious to detect threats with 91 percent accuracy, and who knows what else. "DARPA’s mission is to prevent technological surprise for the United States and to create technological surprise for its adversaries," the agency said in its request for proposals.
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