home, all while your hands are on the steering wheel and your children are in the back seat watching their

shows? For starters, the internet, cell tower networks, GPS, and voice activation. Each of these, and many other
technologies we rely on, were developed with intensive government support. For example, GPS, which enables

many cell phone functions beyond the frequently used mapping and ride-sharing applications, was developed

by the U.S. Department of Defense over several generations of satellite tracking and complex computer

algorithm development. The U.S. government still provides GPS for many of the world’s users.

We do not often think of the government when we consider our leading products and entrepreneurs. We think

of Apple, Google, Lyft, Tesla, Fitbit, and so on—creative innovators who built on the tools provided by these

government efforts, using them in transformative ways. We may not think of the estimated $19 billion per year
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