"This program is now complete."
A very dry way to say human society has irrevocably changed. This is the program that is completed:
The envisioned N3 technology breaks through the limitations of existing technology by delivering an integrated device that does not require surgical implantation, but has the precision to read from and write to 16 independent channels within a 16mm3 volume of neural tissue within 50ms. Each channel is capable of specifically interacting with sub-millimeter regions of the brain with a spatial and temporal specificity that rivals existing invasive approaches. Individual devices can be combined to provide the ability to interface to multiple points in the brain at once.
To enable future non-invasive brain-machine interfaces, N3 researchers are working to develop solutions that address challenges such as the physics of scattering and weakening of signals as they pass through skin, skull, and brain tissue, as well as designing algorithms for decoding and encoding neural signals that are represented by other modalities such as light, acoustic, or electro-magnetic energy.
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/next-generation-nonsurgical-neurotechnology
Does the technology also work to keep people unaware that it is even being used on them? That would be a common sense use of it if one wants maximal benefit from it, for people hate to be reduced to a manipulated object...especially by a computer.
[Update June 15, 2026. Here's a 2025 research article covering five different ways to do neural modulation:
Various neuromodulation strategies, organized by their primary targets, clinical applications, and associated challenges. (A) Deep brain stimulation (DBS) modulates neuronal membrane potentials to treat Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, though its invasive nature poses risks such as infection and bleeding. (B) Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) similarly alters neuronal membrane potentials and is used to manage depression and cognitive impairments. However, it is limited by difficulties in precisely localizing target regions. (C) Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) targets mechanical and pressure-sensitive ion channels for the treatment of Parkinson’s, essential tremor, and dystonia, but it carries the challenge of potential unintended effects on adjacent tissues. (D) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) modulates neuronal activity through the interaction of magnetic and electric fields. A rapidly changing magnetic field, generated by an electric current in a coil, induces an electric field in the brain tissue via electromagnetic induction. This electric field influences ion channel gating and neuronal membrane potentials via Lorentz forces acting on moving ions, enabling precise modulation of neural circuits. TMS is used to treat conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and stroke. (E) Magnetothermal Stimulation uses magnetic hyperthermia to affect ion channels and neuronal excitability, showing promise for treating Parkinson’s, epilepsy and depression, while uncertainties regarding the biocompatibility and safety of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) remain.
Alipour M, Abdolmaleki M, Shabanpour Y, Zali A, Ashrafi F, Nohesara S, Hajipour-Verdom B. Advances in magnetic field approaches for non-invasive targeting neuromodulation. Front Hum Neurosci. 2025 Apr 28;19:1489940. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2025.1489940. PMID: 40356879; PMCID: PMC12066545. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12066545
I wonder which of the way(s) DARPA went with. Or maybe a combination of these ways with quantum sensing and/or quantum entanglement. If I had the US military's resources, I would want to utilize quantum entanglement with relay systems embedded in some of the hundreds of satellites I was already putting up into space. Then I would want to deliver the necessary nano-sized and micro-sized particles into people's bodies using consumer products, vaping, and anything that can get tiny particles up close to the olfactory foramina (the little openings into the brain at the top of our nasal cavities--they are for the olfactory nerves). But, alas, DARPA does not tell me everything it is up to. They're probably bound by law not to tell anything to anyone unless it's "need to know" for that person.
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