{"id":29976,"date":"2016-09-08T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/how-the-us-military-invented-the-iphone"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:25","slug":"how-the-us-military-invented-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/how-the-us-military-invented-the-iphone","title":{"rendered":"How The US Military Invented The iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-us-military-invented-the-iphone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs didn\u2019t create that \u2014 US Military did.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Just about all of the underlying technology in the iPhone can be traced back to military research projects.<\/p>\n<p>For those anxiously awaiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/08\/technology\/apple-iphone.html?_r=0\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the release of Apple\u2019s iPhone 7<\/a>, they might be interested to know that the software company isn\u2019t entirely responsible for the underlying technology behind their newest smartphone. Or for that matter, the technology behind many of their products, from iPhones, to iPads, and iPods.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the breakthroughs behind Apple\u2019s iconic suite of handheld smart devices are actually due to Department of Defense research, according to an article by <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4089171\/mariana-mazzucato\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rana Foroohar in Time Magazine<\/a> on the findings of economist Mariana Mazzucato<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/us-military-invented-iphone\/\">http:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/us-military-invented-iphone\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs didn\u2019t create that \u2014 US Military did. Just about all of the underlying technology in the iPhone can be traced back to military research projects. For those anxiously awaiting the release of Apple\u2019s iPhone 7, they might be interested to know that the software company isn\u2019t entirely responsible for the underlying technology behind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66304,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976\/revisions\/66304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}