--- title: Why the Pentagon Regrets Connecting to the Internet description: Why the Pentagon regrets linking up to the Internet, why credit scores are racist, why native lives matter, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4071355/pentagon-regrets-internet/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-13T16:01:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:16.738Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why the Pentagon Regrets Connecting to the Internet og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4071355/pentagon-regrets-internet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why the Pentagon Regrets Connecting to the Internet twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why the Pentagon Regrets Connecting to the Internet by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 13, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 13, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**For years, the Pentagon hooked everything to the Internet. Now they’re regretting it.**](http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/09/years-pentagon-hooked-everything-internet-now-its-big-big-problem/122402/) By Patrick Tucker in Defense One **2\.** [**Your credit score is racist. Here’s why.**](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/your-credit-score-is-racist-heres-why) By Sarah Ludwig in the Guardian **3\.** [**Native lives matter, too.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/opinion/native-lives-matter-too.html) By Lydia Millet in the New York Times **4\.** [**Why can’t we unite neuroscience and psychiatry?**](http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-cant-we-unite-neuroscience-and-psychiatry/) By Joe Herbert in Aeon **5\.** [**This solar house can be snapped together without tools.**](http://inhabitat.com/this-tiny-e-mailable-solar-house-snaps-together-like-a-3d-puzzle-without-a-single-nail/) By Lucy Wang in Inhabitat  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4071355/pentagon-regrets-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4071355/pentagon-regrets-internet/"},"headline":"Why the Pentagon Regrets Connecting to the Internet","datePublished":"2015-10-13T16:01:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:16.738Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4071355/pentagon-regrets-internet/","keywords":["Innovation","Pentagon","solar","Native Americans","Credit Scores","psychiatry"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4071355/pentagon-regrets-internet/","name":"Why the Pentagon Regrets Connecting to the Internet"}}]}] ```