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Here is the other side of the discussion of “From Origins of SARS-CoV-2 to the Future of Health Care and Surveillance”
Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE…or somewhere in between?
DARPA is heavily invested in transhumanist technologies for the use in
soldiers, including brain-machine interfaces and other even more extreme
ideas. They recently teamed up with the Wellcome Trust to create
something called ‘Wellcome Leap,’ a rather unsettling movement to usher
in transhumanism.https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3978307/posts
Let’s read what Wellcome Leap has to say:
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Just as Sputnik ignited the Space Age, so too could the coronavirus inspire
The Health Age
Leap is built on a unique model of innovation practiced at DARPA.
For more than six decades, this model has been an uninterrupted engine of breakthrough innovation. It is not a discovery science model, but neither is it a pure application model. It sits firmly at the intersection of the two.
Work in what we call Pasteur’s Quadrant demands that we set ambitious goals that are measurable and testable. So that we’ll know if we succeeded or failed. It requires that we intersect life sciences and engineering, so that we can demonstrate advances at convincing scale — because that’s how an idea once thought impossible, is seen as possible.
Why does Leap’s model of innovation matter?
One of the primary elements of the model’s past success is its emphasis on bringing basic scientists and engineers together to work on a single project with bold goals and tight timelines. This creates a cauldron of activity that is driven by the urgency and demands of a global problem. This kind of work falls into what’s known as Pasteur’s Quadrant.
Opportunities in Pasteur’s Quadrant are perishable in time. Either the problem shifts or the science does. So speed and agility are important. And because the goals are ambitious, we most often require diverse ideas and a vibrant mix of participants working from their home organizations. This is almost a unique characteristic of Pasteur’s Quadrant projects, which are almost always multi-discipline, multi-community, multi-stage and dynamically adapting throughout the program.
This also requires strong partnerships, humility, and respect. Because work in Pasteur’s Quadrant depends on a robust basic science discovery engine and organizations that scale innovations in the public and private sector.
This strategy is described in more detail in “Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems”, Harvard Business Review, Dugan & Gabriel, 2013.
“This is about being able to inject the cells in your muscles, say to
produce antibodies automatically, for a vaccine that we’ve never seen
before, and do it in 60 days or less to protect a large
population,” Walker said. “This is work we’ve been funding for about 10
years at universities, and now we are going into clinical trials with
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