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Redux: Honest to God, DARPA & Jet Packs

By: Ann Finkbeiner | July 4, 2017

My friend and colleague, Sharon Weinberger, has a new book out called The Imagineers of War.  It’s a history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Agency, an agency with which she has had, as a journalist, a long and storied history.  One of DARPA’s proposals was for a wearable jet pack.  Just let that sink in for a minute.

Here it is, in all its original glory.

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