challenge of biocybernetics was weighing the fantastical applications it offered—brain-driven computers and mind-controlled aircraft—with the reality that such work was decades away. For example, according to a 1975 summary, ARPA hoped to achieve a capability to translate an eight-word vocabulary based on EEG signals. “The discipline of biocybernetics is essentially being created by ARPA,” the program summary at the time stated.
