Actually, if you really, really look into who did the ENGINEERING for the components used in the iPhone and other smartphones, you need to look at Bell Labs, a NGO dedicated to providing good telephone service in its first 80 years of life.. Both iOS and Android OS can trace part of their ancestry to Unix, a Bell Labs skunks work project. As for government, the government itself didn't ENGINEER the inventions, private industry did, under contract with DARPA and the four branches of the Armed Forces. Not to mention all the fallout from NASA and its contracting to NGOs for Mercury/Gemini/Apollo and the Space Shuttle.
Basic research? Look to the network of universities and their associated National Laboratories -- more NGOs who moved technology forward.
Absolutely correct. I was thinking along those lines when I first started reading the article.
Of course it goes without saying that Pelosi is a moron. She’s the one that uttered the phrase: “We have to pass this bill to find out what’s in it.”
Now, like the good little liberal lapdog she is, she parrots Little Barry’s: “You didnt build that.”
I am so sick of these people.