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WARNER'S ENTIRE TEAM - WHICH he called, in all seriousness, the Synergy Strike Force - had just attended Burning Man that summer. He himself had been attending annually since 2002. And the bar, it turned out, was his
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The milieu around the guest house called itself the Synergy Strike Force, or SSF — an informal network for development and tech projects, but mostly a cool name for a crew of about a dozen friends.
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This balloon contained a satellite dish that helped the Taj Mahal guesthouse provide an internet connection to guests, and to high-tech projects in the vicinity.
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magazine, Warner described why the group's headquarters was outside the military security perimeter and field trips were made with a light security presence.
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connection. Western visitors were encouraged to share data they acquired, which would be freely shared with whoever wanted it. Warner said this free
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veteran, is credited with leading the group and finding funding for it, primarily sourced from
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The Imagineers of War: The Untold History of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
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magazine, described how the group's funding ran out in 2012 as the war ran down.
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was the self-chosen informal name of a group of individuals who applied
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Index


crowdsourcing
Afghanistan
Dave Warner
neuroscientist
Army
DARPA
Pacific Standard
Jalalabad
high-speed internet
data sharing
Burning Man
radical inclusion
Sharon Weinberger
Spencer Ackerman
Wired
Todd Huffman
biomedical imaging
3Scan



"The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War"
Pacific Standard


Sharon Weinberger
The Imagineers of War: The Untold History of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN

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