Isn’t that the general premise of VC? We have had a long boom period of startups, and may have been more than a bit blinded by our own efforts to produce useful

Isn’t that the general premise of VC? We have had a long boom period of startups, and may have been more than a bit blinded by our own efforts to produce useful gadgets and perhaps we have forgotten that most of the fundamental tech comes from academic and national research done with government money.