This is really just government investment. Government investment gave us the iPhone basically. I mean look at it: GPS — government technology the internet

This is really just government investment. Government investment gave us the iPhone basically. I mean look at it: GPS — government technology the internet — a government technology ai voice assistants — Apple literally hired the head of this research straight from DARPA after DARPA had released its work to the public touchscreens — DARPA accelerometers — DARPA speech recognition — more DARPA and MIT tech One of the only non-gov't technologies core to it is microprocessors which was made by Bell Labs. But even that was only possible because of a gov't mandated monopoly on Bell Labs and legislation that forced it to invest in research. Basically what public universities are The government is innovative. It's just not good at taking credit for it I mean just think about it for a second. Why on earth would a private company ever invest heavily in R&D and then release that knowledge to the public so everyone (including their competitors) can benefit. All our major technological innovations have come from the public sector and that should not at all be surprising if you just think about the incentive structures Edit: if you're interested in this topic, economist Mariana Mazzucato has a whole book on debunking public vs. private sector myths. It's quite good and draws on a lot of data and evidence to make its case and show how absurd some of our assumptions really are: https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-entrepreneurial-state https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-entrepreneurial-state