It's a good article. I would say the greatest technological advances emerged from the government, not from decentralized competition among independent actors pursuing their own visions (especially in recent history), but that's just my opinion. The companies you write of are actually the government, the scientists are the government, and the universities are also the government. - Operation Warp speed (poisoning people with vaccines as viruses don't exist) - The Manhattan Project (scaring people into submission as there is 0 evidence that nuclear weapons exist - no one has ever proven they can split an atom) - The Genesis Mission (AI governance)