I find it telling that you think it's challenging to name an invention that depends on any of the last 30 years of basic research, so we're at an impasse.
Then I said I would be happy to if you could name a single one in the past 30 years.
And you can't.
- Soft-white LEDs
- Data-over-headphone-jack
- ZK-SNARKs
- Tor
- Energy-harvesting power monitors
- TCP congestion control
These all had government funding or were invented in government labs.