Virtually every prospering country in the world is heavily investing in technological advancement, many of them for military and other strategic purposes. Americans appear to equate technology mostly with consumer oriented products. The U.S. does globally partcipate with much of the development of non-consumer technology. There are however problems with this. Some of the countries that have amassed huge wealth to invest in non-consumer technology are either not our friends or marginal friends, and the countries that we deal with may be "sleeping with the enemy." The U.S. must invest in its own technological advancement to keep an assured perimeter of safety and security. The U.S. must at all costs maintain its technological leadership. The tech sector should be focusing on developing home-grown engineers and scientists, preventing the theft of intellectual property, homeland security detection devices of every ilk, countermeasures to prevent abuse of the Internet and handheld computing devices, satellite technology, modernizing our military defenses at every level, the deployment of supercomputers for weather and other logistical preparation systems, etc. If the U.S. pooled its private sector and governmental resources to these applications the tech sector would not only be rejuvinated by many new emerging technologies but would reinvigorate the consumer tech sector. One example of where this happened was with the global positioning systems (GPSs). These devices were originally used for piloting and marine applications. Today they are used by numerous consumers in vehicles, by law enforcement, tracking lost animals, etc.