So what you ' re saying is that without al gore , then we ' d never have the Interent ? I mean if government is necessary for the discovery of certain things , then it seems to follow that certain people are responsible for discoveries as well . I disagree . I think certain discoveries are inevitable . If it wasn ' t Al Gore , then it would have been some other politician . In the same way , if it wasn ' t the US to promote the development of the Internet , then it would have been another government . Do you agree with that , that maybe Russia , china , france or the UK might have developed the Internet if the US didn ' t manage to do it first ? Or do you think there was something special about the US that prevented any of these other countries from discovering it ?