Biology is Technology - #DARPA is Back in the Game With A Big Vision and It Is H+ - h+ Magazine
▻http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/02/15/biology-technology-darpa-back-game-big-vision-h/?1
DARPA’s new vision is simply to revolutionize the human situation and it is fully #transhumanist in its approach.
The Biological Technologies Office or BTO was announced with little fanfare in the spring of 2014. (...)
DARPA (...) held a two day event in the SIlicon Valley area to facilitate and communicate about radical changes ahead in the area of #biotechnologies. Invitees included some of the top biotechnology scientists in the world. And the audience was a mixed group of scientists, engineers, inventors, investors, futurists, along with a handful of government contractors and military personnel.
(...) Following the inspirational presentation by Dr. Ling, the individual program managers had a chance to present their projects.
The first Program Manager to present, Phillip Alvelda, opened the event with his mind blowing project to develop a working “cortical modem”. What is a cortical modem you ask? Quite simply it is a direct neural interface that will allow for the visual display of information without the use of glasses or goggles. I was largely at this event to learn about this project and I wasn’t disappointed.
Leveraging the work of Karl Deisseroth in the area of optogenetics, the cortical modem project aims to build a low cost neural interface based display device. (...)
The implications of this project are astounding.