what head in what sand?

it IS best to keep an open mind, and it's equally important to get all of the facts. i looked up the article you were referring to, and below are a few quotes, in addition to the ones you provided. seeing both sides of the coin is vital to getting a complete picture. for example, i've worked as a pediatric phlebotomist. from a parent's point of view, i may seem like a cold, unfeeling person who jabs their child with a sharp object. from the physician's point of view, i've played i vital part in finding out that the child is suffering from anemia, which was found in the blood that i drew. now, if you want to, you can only listen to what the mother had to say - "the mean nurse stuck my baby and made her cry", or you can listen to the doctor, who explains that he now knows how to treat the child because he knows what the cause of the symptoms is. i'm no genius, and i've never claimed to be, but i am VERY analytical, and very thirsty for information - the WHOLE information, which may not always be what i want to hear, but it's the facts. no head in sand here.

"The Brain Machine Interface program, which may well be next in the spotlight, could offer help to the paralyzed and is no more likely to bring about a virtual police state than technologies that are already available."

"DARPA is the successor to ARPA, an office that was created in 1958, in the wake of Sputnik, to push forward scientific research with potential military applications. ARPA laid the foundation for what is today the Internet, and also contributed to a wide variety of computer applications currently in use."

"The most ambitious potential applications, which tend to be emphasized when a research program is under fire, lie for now in the realm of only slightly plausible fiction."

''When you push basic research, you try to speak about what it might do in the long term,'' said Poggio, who is a neuroscientist at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research. ''But there is always the danger that people will take this too seriously.''

"More probable than the military applications is the possibility that the research will yield ways for the severely injured, even those who are locked in a totally paralyzed body, to move around and communicate."

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