Military Industrial Complex

When a former high ranking official preaches for a particular solution to a problem - maybe that former official might know some things about the cause of the problem, and know something about the best solution. Clearly the former official as a former insider would have better insight to the problem than us typical normal people. Or maybe, just maybe, that former official is abusing an emergency to push a product that he's being paid to promote regardless of how good (or not) that thing is.

Augmented Cognition is a research idea being pursued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that seems straight out of Science Fiction. The idea is that modern Military work is largely working with computers to do things like analyze intelligence data, or operate robotic weaponry, or fly airplanes, etc. Computers as they exist have too much information, supposedly, for the soldiers to comprehend. The idea is to have the computer scanning brainwaves and use that information to change the computer display so it fits the individual.