THFTNR friend Noah Shachtman has fulfilled a lifelong dream of mine: joining the X-Men. Many of you know Noah from his unparalleled blog Defense Tech, your one-stop shop for the gadgetry of death and destruction. After four years of excellence, Noah's moving to the Wired website to run an expanded DT called... Danger Room. His mutant powers are on display in this interview with Tony Tether, the mixtape king turned chief of DARPA.

UPDATE: Yes, this post changed a ton, thanks to my steadily-diminishing powers of reading comprehension.