“Eureka! We did it, we did it!”
A few years ago the Pentagon offered a $1 million reward to anybody who could install a live and functioning insect brain into a robot. (“Mad, you say? It’ll show those fools at Stanford who’s mad!”) We haven’t heard whether anybody’s claimed the reward or not.
Somebody out there is working pretty hard to see that we wind up in a 1950s monster movie. A housefly armed with death rays–what could possibly go wrong?
The federal gov’t has no authority to be giving education any money – educations was left to the States.
At one time the states had to keep their hands off it, too.