Comments on: The X-Prize…for cars http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/20/the-x-prizefor-cars/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben L http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/20/the-x-prizefor-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-107000 Ben L Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:48:49 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/20/the-x-prizefor-cars/#comment-107000 I am impressed by the X-Prize Foundation yet again. I remember hearing about the space ship competition for the first time as a teenager and being impressed at how low the costs were to develop the winning spaceship compared to NASA. Instead of government funding organizations like NASA, why don’t they follow the X-Prize model instead? A $10 million prize is meager in comparison to the funding an organization like NASA receives. It also promotes innovation within the economy. While I’m not completely sold on the grave implications of climate change the media tries to sell to us every heat wave, the innovations that result from combating climate change always astound me. I believe the change of lifestyle and shifting of focus to sustainability is great for the economy. I certainly think that the government should be more creative in its solutions to invoke change. Rather than introducing carbon taxes, MPG restrictions or further subsidizing farmers so we can drive corn-mobiles to work everyday they should be thinking more like the X-Prize Foundation. I am impressed by the X-Prize Foundation yet again. I remember hearing about the space ship competition for the first time as a teenager and being impressed at how low the costs were to develop the winning spaceship compared to NASA. Instead of government funding organizations like NASA, why don’t they follow the X-Prize model instead? A $10 million prize is meager in comparison to the funding an organization like NASA receives. It also promotes innovation within the economy.

While I’m not completely sold on the grave implications of climate change the media tries to sell to us every heat wave, the innovations that result from combating climate change always astound me. I believe the change of lifestyle and shifting of focus to sustainability is great for the economy. I certainly think that the government should be more creative in its solutions to invoke change. Rather than introducing carbon taxes, MPG restrictions or further subsidizing farmers so we can drive corn-mobiles to work everyday they should be thinking more like the X-Prize Foundation.

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