A March 1995 article in Defense News entitled “Naval Research Lab Attempts to Meld Neurons and Chips: Studies May Produce Army of ‘Zombies” announced that the battles of the future would be waged using “genetically engineered organisms, such as rodents, whose minds are controlled by computer chips engineered with living brain cells.… The research, called Hippocampal Neuron Patterning, grows live neurons on computer chips.”
