Darpa's Magic Plan: 'Battlefield Illusions' to Mess With Enemy Minds

Darpa's Magic Plan: 'Battlefield Illusions' to Mess With Enemy Minds | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Arthur C. Clarke once famously quipped that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So perhaps it was inevitable that the Pentagon’s extreme technology arm would eventually start acting like magicians — and try to create illusions on the front lines.

In its new budget, unveiled on Monday, Darpa introduced a new $4 million investigation into technologies that will “manage the adversary’s sensory perception” in order to “confuse, delay, inhibit, or misdirect [his] actions.” Darpa calls the project “Battlefield Illusion.” Of course."