Body That Spawned the Internet Wants to Rebuild It

DARPA [Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency], the US military’s occasionally eccentric death-tech hothouse, is often lauded as having created the internet. Under its old name ARPA, the agency oversaw development of the so-called Arpanet, forerunner of today’s IP net. Now, however, DARPA reckons the internet needs to be reinvented. This week the Pentagon’s radical-boffinry specialists issued a request for revolutionary ideas