Federal government standards, regulations, funding, and policy are critical to driving innovation to reduce healthcare costs, expand access to quality healthcare, develop new cures, and improve health outcomes.
http://www.slideshare.net/BoozAllen/the-federal-governments-key-role-in-healthcare-innovation
http://www.slideshare.net/BoozAllen/the-federal-governments-key-role-in-healthcare-innovation
Then tell me...under what government-funded directive did it originate? Which president or Congress said "We need to fund the invention of interconnected computers, so let's get the ball rolling..."
Besides, you said the government is always at the forefront. What are the other great advances they spearheaded?
Lol, you are looking for commercial products. That's not what the government creates. But the government has been behind every major technological innovation in the past century. The computer, the internet, radar, cell phones, gps, Google, microchips, touch screen technology, memory foam, scratch resistant lenses, smoke detectors, cordless power tools, water filters, etc.
I mean, the fact you guys are so dumb you don't understand how big of an impact the government and academic institutions have on technological and scientific innovations is hilarious. But no one ever confuses conservatives as being intelligent.
You guys are really dumb.
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Could you give us a few more specific technologies that are the product of government funding?
All basic technologies that make our mobile phones “smart” can be traced back to governmental initiative and funding. Just a few: microprocessors; RAM memory; hard disk drives; liquid-crystal displays; lithium batteries; the Internet; cellular technology and networks; global positioning system (GPS); multi-touch screens.
Take the GPS, for instance: it was an attempt by the Department of Defense to digitize global geographic positioning to enhance the coordination and accuracy of military assets. By the mid-1990s, civilian use of GPS quickly outnumbered military utilization following the release of the technology for commercial use. Nevertheless, to this day, the US Air Force continuously develops and maintains the system, which costs $705 million annually. From 1973 to 2000, the U.S. government invested $5.6 billion in developing the system.
But government funding to radical technologies goes beyond the IT sector, and you can find the government fingerprints on many renewable energy technologies (solar, wind) or even in cars! For instance, the technologies that made the airbag a reality in the 1970s – those that enabled the device to sense a collision and inflate faster than a blink of an eye – all came from earlier state-funded military and space research.
And of course the enormous spending of the National Institutes of Health ($792 billion from 1936-2011, in 2011 dollars, with $31 billion last year alone) has fuelled most of the innovation in both biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Most of the new molecular entities with priority rating — the most innovative drugs — trace their funding to NIH.
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Could you give us a few more specific technologies that are the product of government funding?
All basic technologies that make our mobile phones “smart” can be traced back to governmental initiative and funding. Just a few: microprocessors; RAM memory; hard disk drives; liquid-crystal displays; lithium batteries; the Internet; cellular technology and networks; global positioning system (GPS); multi-touch screens.
Take the GPS, for instance: it was an attempt by the Department of Defense to digitize global geographic positioning to enhance the coordination and accuracy of military assets. By the mid-1990s, civilian use of GPS quickly outnumbered military utilization following the release of the technology for commercial use. Nevertheless, to this day, the US Air Force continuously develops and maintains the system, which costs $705 million annually. From 1973 to 2000, the U.S. government invested $5.6 billion in developing the system.
But government funding to radical technologies goes beyond the IT sector, and you can find the government fingerprints on many renewable energy technologies (solar, wind) or even in cars! For instance, the technologies that made the airbag a reality in the 1970s – those that enabled the device to sense a collision and inflate faster than a blink of an eye – all came from earlier state-funded military and space research.
And of course the enormous spending of the National Institutes of Health ($792 billion from 1936-2011, in 2011 dollars, with $31 billion last year alone) has fuelled most of the innovation in both biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Most of the new molecular entities with priority rating — the most innovative drugs — trace their funding to NIH.
So we ask for examples of government innovation and aaakped gives us a list of technologies developed in the military. face)(*^%
The military isn't "academia" and "sciences" you dumb fuck. Most of the technologies developed in the military aren't even made public until years later.
The military is a necessary legitimate constitutional government function (see the enumerated powers). We should be spending MORE on the military rather than the useless socialist bullshit you and your radical party advocate.
"government fingerprints all over blah blah bah"...and the troll desperately scours the left wing blogosphere only to end up with a list of products originally developed by the military. Well, DUH!
Priceless.
Btw, how's all your useless "global warming" green energy bullshit coming along?
Loser!@#0
The military isn't "academia" and "sciences" you dumb fuck. Most of the technologies developed in the military aren't even made public until years later.
The military is a necessary legitimate constitutional government function (see the enumerated powers). We should be spending MORE on the military rather than the useless socialist bullshit you and your radical party advocate.
"government fingerprints all over blah blah bah"...and the troll desperately scours the left wing blogosphere only to end up with a list of products originally developed by the military. Well, DUH!
Priceless.
Btw, how's all your useless "global warming" green energy bullshit coming along?
Loser!@#0
The military is one of a very few legitimate functions of the federal government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers
The radical 'progressive' bullshit you and the Kenyan advocate, is not.
You're such a delusional brainwashed ideological loon that you really believe conservatives are "anti-government" LOL
We're not "anti-government"...we're anti-aaakped/Stuttering Clusterfuck government.
The fact is, 90% of what the govt spends its money on is total CRAP...AND ILLEGAL!
Federal government spent nearly $70 billion on ‘climate change activities’ since 2008
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/17/f...lion-on-climate-change-activities-since-2008/
face)(*^%
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/17/f...lion-on-climate-change-activities-since-2008/
face)(*^%
The government funded NASA and through NASA we've made miraculous technological advances.
With that said why all the repetition in here?
Akphi, we know what you think of Joe, and all his friends here. We know your views on global warming.
Joe, we all know all the things Akphi has said.
Let this Fucking thread die already, so global wa,er, climate change can kill us all or not kill us all already.
With that said why all the repetition in here?
Akphi, we know what you think of Joe, and all his friends here. We know your views on global warming.
Joe, we all know all the things Akphi has said.
Let this Fucking thread die already, so global wa,er, climate change can kill us all or not kill us all already.
He probably thinks the military spending $10k on a toilet seat or $20k on a hammer counts as "development."
He probably also has no idea that the military turns to ... wait or it ... defense contractors (ie the private sector) when they need something built. Suggesting private defense contractors are part of the military would be akin to me saying I'm an Italian chef because I ordered a pizza from Domino's.
The only thing the government has ever "invented" is new ways to steal money from the population without merit. Yes, steal. There are more than one tax increases on the way in LA County after elections in six weeks. Someone feel free to tell me exactly what extra benefit I'll be getting for the extra money I'm about to be paying...
