At DARPA, however, Goldblatt turned his attention to something far more ambitious than food wrappers: he wanted to work on enhancing human beings. Goldblatt was inspired by science fiction like Firefox, the 1982 movie starring Clint Eastwood, which featured weapons controlled by the human mind. Under Goldblatt, DARPA funded a group of researchers at Duke University to implant microelectrodes in monkeys’ brains.
