Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push

Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they’ll read each other’s minds.

At least, that’s the hope of researchers at the Pentagon’s mad-science division Darpa. The agency’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $4 million to start up a program called Silent Talk. The goal is to “allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.” That’s on top of the $4 million the Army handed out last year to the University of California to investigate the potential for computer-mediated telepathy.

Before being vocalized, speech exists as word-specific neural signals in the mind. Darpa wants to develop technology that would detect these signals of “pre-speech,” analyze them, and then transmit the statement to an intended interlocutor. Darpa plans to use EEG to read the brain waves. It’s a technique they’re also testing in a project to devise mind-reading binoculars that alert soldiers to threats faster the conscious mind can process them.


The project has three major goals, according to Darpa. First, try to map a person’s EEG patterns to his or her individual words. Then, see if those patterns are generalizable — if everyone has similar patterns. Last, “construct a fieldable pre-prototype that would decode the signal and transmit over a limited range.”

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time in terms of warning us, especially with RABID and VIDEODROME.

Stargate, Grilleflame, or whatever they were called, from the late 70s through the early 90s (I think).

I would love to see that type of science revived, not for the purpose of war, though.

The work that Standford University was doing was far more positive in its purpose, and yielded very interesting results.

The original TRV project seemed to do more good than evil, although it was not for lack of trying.

I remember when I first saw the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/">Firefox with Clint Eastwood, I thought it was silly and naive to think that if such a technology was developed, it would be used primarily to build a jet fighter that could read the pilot's mind. Apparently that movie wasn't far off the mark after all.

It'll be more useful in the monitoring of citizens for the detection of thought crime.

And this is the very first time I believed that could be a literally true concept...

the gommit will invest millions in stupid sht

they are readying MY NOTES! I swear.

Future Nexus has a MENTALIST corp, and this is possible... but it is supposed to be SCIENCE FICTION...

Damn it... I can't write fantasy, but I might as well start freelancing in current and near future science writing....

gimme a break with this Sci-Fi crap. Even if telepathy is possible, 4 million bucks? That could fix an awful lot of real problems.

I mean next DARPA will want to build a network of computers nodes that can survive a nuclear war.

Obviously another waste of money and effort. It will never work!!

:hi:

(he supervised Operation STARGATE with our $$$ for over 20 years-he's "privatized")
http://www.lfr.org/

Or how about I just dump a crapload of em clutter all over your "Theater of War".

What a waste of money. More suitable for criminals and collusion. Oh wait, perfect!

No one is allowed to disparage the Tin Foil Hat ever again.