Apple's Siri: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Writing in the New York Times recently, Steve Lorh reported:
"In 2010, Apple bought Siri, a personal assistant application for smartphones. At the time, it was a small start-up in Silicon Valley that originated as a program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Pentagon [DARPA]. Last year, Siri became the talking question-answering application on iPhones." Source: http://nyti.ms/xV9BK6
What do we learn from this? 
We learn that, because Siri was funded by DARPA, and because DARPA is funded by taxes payed by American citizens to the Federal government, Apple's Siri is an example of your tax dollars at work!
How much taxpayer money did DARPA pay Siri to develop its technology?  Out of Siri's 2011 revenues of $585 million, DARPA contributed approximately 67% and other U.S. Government agencies [National Science Foundation, Department of Education and National Institutes of Health] contribued an additional 23% of Siri's revenues. Source: http://bit.ly/wfDLrc
Just think about that the next time you start moaning groaning about your taxes--or the next time you ask a question to Siri on your iPhone 4S...
Jagor