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Sharon Weinberger is the author of the new book The Imagineers of War:The Untold Story of DARPA.\\xa0DARPA, for the un-initiated, stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and it is the branch of the Pentagon that is famous for developing some far-out-there technologies, some of which were total flops but others that have become central to not only modern warfare, but also daily life.
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