Without greater federal funding of cutting-edge technologies, corporations such as Google will be the ones that own the future. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/technology/personaltech/google-not-the-government-is-building-the-future.html?emc=%5B%27edit_tnt_20170517%27%5D&nlid=%5B%279935747%27%5D&tntemail0=%5B%27y%27%5D