Metalab, the hackerspace the author of the article started, is partially funded by the govt but I find it hard to believe it was willed into being by govt committee.

This article is so strange... and it sounds just like the US, except instead of search engines, it's some kind of war tech (whether it's weaponry, vehicles, planes, or spy stuff).

Telecoms and resource companies (e.g. mineral oil), power, postal services, and so on, have a similar history in the US... but who would write about the "US Method of Startups: Waterfall" and use the postal service as an example?

Not to mention the bailouts (of railroads, of utilities, of car makers, of banks...).