"DARPA's mission is to create strategic surprise"
Errrr...no, it isn't. DARPA's mission is to burn through about $3bn a year (possibly a lot more on the various skunk projects) trying to develop yet more toys for the peevish children running the Pentagon. And that's because the Pentagon aren't satisfied with spending more on "defence" than the next eight biggest spending nations combined.
I suppose DARPA's 3bn is drop in the ocean of US total defence spending of around half a trillion dollars a year, but even so, it is an intriguing exercise to imagine the good things that the US could achieve if it spent rather more on improving lives rather than forcibly ending them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
