That really we shouldnt expect today in successful, modern, techdriven economy, and closing this gap was a big part of the motivation, both for my term of duty in Public Service as well as i wanted to write the book. Host the subtitle is how new technologies can transform government. How does the u. S. Government use technology and does it do it successfully. Guest were moving in the right direction, i think about American History in the book. Go back to our founding fathers. We have had a long tradition of having government keep pace and often lead the private sector in the use of technology to solve problems. I noted, for example, one of the Founding Technology oz ibm had its origins in a Census Bureau employee who face seemingly irsurmountmentables to calculate the number of people in the country. So governments have long history of being innovative and the capability to deliver Better Services, and the last several decades we have sign a divergence in the capacity in the private se