http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-darpa14aug14a,1,5017558.story?coll=la-home-leftrailOver the past half-century, an obscure Pentagon group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been behind some of the world's most revolutionary inventions - the Internet, the global positioning system, stealth technology and the computer mouse, to name a few.
It's an impressive record of success offset only by the fact that DARPA has also come up with some of the most boneheaded ideas ever to spring from the government.
Over the years, millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on a variety of projects, from telepathic spies and jungle-tromping robotic elephants, to its most recent fiasco - FutureMAP, an online futures market designed to predict assassinations and bombings by encouraging investor speculation in such crimes.
"Morally repugnant," said Yale University economist Robert Shiller.
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