You pretty much answered my question, but you took me down memory lane when you were speaking, so I'm going to share my thoughts with you.
I remember studying Hobbes in my undergrad, and he argued that a rational monarchy would empower its people in order for them to survive, so if you keep them rich, you'll stay rich. Just drawing some parallels there, how can the government make money off of empowering people? The currency has changed—information technology, access—we want everyone to have that, but then how do we generate revenue from it in smart cities?