He points out that the evolution of technology is guided by the financial investments put into research and the scientific talent of the researchers behind it all. Atkinson states, “business and governments can steer technology, but they cannot cause leaps in basic science that support technological gain” (Atkinson 360). The government has to fund research, but how the findings are used is important in an economy of abundance. At the country’s current state, if the nation does not change the way it chooses to develop technology, it will be more convenient to improve weapons of war, rather than other technology that serves to solve problems fundamental to the human condition of society (Atkinson