According To DARPA, This Is What The World Will Look Like In 2045

[jdgregory84]

Pretty sure they just play too much Metal Gear.

[Snatch Napkin]

Hopefully, enough children saw WALL-E and took note of how lazy the human race had become.
They're our only hope.

[sc281]

I read a book a few years ago called Imaginary Weapons. It talks about the politics within DARPA, with these crackpot scientists going after each others' budgets and defending their (lack of) progress on the projects they got funding for.

It's likely that every item in the list above is at least being tested, if not already available for operational use. If they're discussing it in press conferences, it's because our frenemies are already well aware of the technology, and we've already moved on to the Next Big Thing.

Darpa?! More like Derpa!

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