Before Nexus 7 made it to Afghanistan, its creator, Peter Lee, abruptly left DARPA after less than a year to become the head of research at Microsoft. On the day he left for Seattle in September 2010 to start his new job, the Nexus 7 team, some members as young as their mid-twenties, was departing for Afghanistan. “I should have been with them,” he said regretfully. DARPA would eventually deploy more than a hundred people across Afghanistan, working on Nexus 7 and other technology programs.
