As the author notes, the U.S. government’s spending on technology, especially the military, has led to many iconic inventions. For example, the Internet began as a research project at ARPA, now known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Decades later, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page received funding from DARPA, the National Science Foundation, and US Intelligence Community launched a large-scale digital data systems development program to create what would become Google.
