>While there are many ways to describe the choices democratic societies have made about technology, perhaps the most concrete and easiest to quantify are the investment realized. These show clear choices about technological paths that Western liberal democracies (and thus most of the financial capital in the world) have made about investments in the future of technology, many of a quite recent origin. While these have recently been driven primarily by the private sector, they reflect earlier priorities set by governments that are in many ways just beginning to filter through to private sector applications.

>public sector とは、例えば、警察、国立や公立の学校、貧しい人のための医療など、政府が所有または運営をする経済活動の分野、つまり、公共セクターのことです。

> private sector とは、政府が所有または管理をしない経済活動の分野、つまり、民間セクターのことです。