I'm all for it once you get someone to pay for the research before you spend less on military research. It's really great to want world peace and to be idealistic, but until you can offer real solutions to problems, you're just creating noise by making such comments. The Internet was started by DARPA funding. That's why we're here today.

So, AFTER you've convinced the American tax payer to directly fund this kind of research, or you create an X-Prize crowded funded site, I think we should be thankful that the military is willing to "invest in the future" rather than just build bullets and bombs, which have no positive side effects.

Having a military is a necessary evil in the world in which we live. Find ways to turn some of it into a positive force.

eg. http://www.npr.org/2012/02/17/147047543/desert-military-base...