Objectives
The Center for the Economics of Ideas has three main focus areas:聽 Communicating Ideas, Digital Authenticity, and Promotion of Open Collaboration.
Objectives
Communicating Ideas聽
- Conveying ideas now requires more than prose. The Center promotes tools and systems that combine prose with code.
- Intelligence (both real and artificial) in the modern world depends on algorithmic thinking and an understanding of the language of the modern world鈥攃ode. The Center promotes technology learning at all levels of education.
Digital Authenticity
- Digital messages of unknown provenance hamper collective progress because they undermine the trust required for productive collaboration and sharing. The Center offers practical solutions to promote digital authenticity.聽
Promotion of Open Collaboration
- Long-term economic growth depends on the accumulation of knowledge. The Center promotes the development of new ideas to encourage technological advancement and increased productivity.聽
- Unlike physical capital, one person's use of an idea does not diminish its availability to others for their own use. The Center promotes the open dissemination of ideas towards collective improvement.