When I say (qui sta parlando Anthony J. Tether, Director) Bio Revolution, I really mean just that.
I have reviewed over the past year hundreds of projects, both ongoing and proposed. However, there is one project that has struck me the most.
DARPA has a monkey located at Duke University where probes were implanted into its brain. The unique factor of these probes is that they were not rejected. They have been in the monkey for over a year now without any harmful effect. The monkey was given a joystick and taught that to receive a treat, the monkey had to move the joystick. The signals from the implant were transmitted to a mechanical arm also grasping a joystick. The mechanical arm was taught to move in the same manner as the monkey's arm. So, when the light came on, the monkey moved the joystick in order to get the treat. The signals were then sent over the Internet, of course, to MIT where the mechanical arm was located and the mechanical arm moved its joystick. Now that is terrific but that is not the chilling part.
We took the joystick away from the monkey at Duke. The light came on. Who knows what the monkey really thought but it knew what it had to do. But it had no joystick. However, the mechanical arm at MIT moved the joystick just like it did before. It was thought at first that the motor signal was being transmitted to MIT but it turned out that the probes had tapped into the monkey's thoughts for moving the joystick. In other words, the monkey thought about moving the joystick and the joystick at MIT moved.

This has tremendous possibilities.
I don't know how long this is going to take -- perhaps 25 years or more. But it will happen. The genie is out of the bottle on this possibility and the Nation that first gains this capability will dominate.
Imagine 25 years from now where old guys like me put on a pair of glasses or a helmet and open our eyes. [/u]Somewhere there will be a robot that will open its eyes and we will be able to see what the robot sees.[/u] We will be able to remotely look down on a cave and think to ourselves, "Let's go down there and kick some butt." And the robots will respond controlled by our thoughts. It's coming. Imagine a warrior, with the intellect of a human and the immortality of a machine, controlled by our thoughts. DARPA has started a major program in this area.