my next guest says i should not be thanking steve jobs or even apple for it. she s author of a book just out in the united states called the entrepreneurial state: debunking the private versus public sector mix. it s a fascinating book. it says the technology wasn t invented by apple. first of all, it s not that steve jobs want a genius or that apple wasn t a wonderful story. steve jobs was great. the narrative we tell around him as an individual and the company completely misses this intervention. the story is that every technology that makes an iphone smart and not stupid was actually publicly funded. the internet, gps, touchscreen display, even siri, the voice-activated system that never works for me but is apparently a great thing, were all funded by different types of public institutions in the u.s.