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Inventing the internet and pioneering satellite navigation, U.S. government agency DARPA has had an illustrious history since being founded by President Eisenhower (as the Advanced Research Projects Agency) on February 7th, 1958.\xa0\nCreated in response to the Soviets launching Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, its mission, which continues to this day, is \u2018to prevent technological surprise.\u2019\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly uncover how DARPA helped create the humble computer mouse; explain how former Nazi Wernher von Braun found his way to the head of this supposedly All-American organisation; and look forward to a world of self-sustaining surveillance robots eating us out of house and home\u2026\nFurther Reading:\n\n\u2018Fifty years of DARPA: A surprising history\u2019 (New Scientist, 2008): https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13908-fifty-years-of-darpa-a-surprising-history/\n\n\n\u2018The Nazi Science That Fed the Apollo 11 Moon Landing\u2019 (Time, 2019): https://time.com/5627637/nasa-nazi-von-braun/\n\n\n\u20183 of the strangest projects DARPA has worked on\u2019 (Tech Insider, 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hSs0S5FVx8\n\n\n\nFor bonus material and to support the show, visit\xa0Patreon.com/Retrospectors\nWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts:\xa0podfollow.com/Retrospectors\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2021.\n#50s #Inventions #Technology #Russia #US\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices