{"text":"The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from the concourse below, lingering in the warm Californian air like an atmospheric irony, and a Jumbotron directly in front of me displayed a blandly handsome announcer seated behind a curved desk emblazoned with DARPA’s logo: a sports broadcast mise-en-scène from some speculative future, vaguely fascist, in which the machinery of national defense had become a spectacle of mass entertainment.","author":"Mark O'Connell","tags":["announcers","darpa","irony","mass-entertainment","military","national-defense","spectacle","sports"],"id":136093,"author_id":"Mark+O%27Connell"}