The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

so important to the future of space exploration and space travel.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.