It's alive!: inside the Department of Mad Scientists

The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs

Move over Al Gore, the internet was invented in a dark corner of the U.S. government known as DARPA, or, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The name may sound clunky and dull, but their research is anything but. From cars that drive themselves to self-guided bullets, author Michael Belfiore peered behind the curtain and returns with the inside scoop on many of DARPA’s projects, past and present, in The Department of Mad Scientists.

Move over Al Gore, the internet was invented in a dark corner of the U.S. government known as DARPA, or, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The name may sound clunky and dull, but their research is anything but. From cars that drive themselves to self-guided bullets, author Michael Belfiore peered behind the curtain and returns with the inside scoop on many of DARPA’s projects, past and present, in The Department of Mad Scientists.

Guest:

Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs (Smithsonian).