The Dodo awards Alice her prize after the caucus-race In space circles, the idea of offering incentive prizes to develop complex technology has some currency. Most notably, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich recently advocated a prize-based incentive model coupled with a leaner NASA as an alternative to our currently stalled, government bureaucratic model of space operations. The incentive idea is behind the current Centennial Challenges program of NASA, which offers money for the demonstration of certain specified technologies or procedures. Presumably, Gingrich is speaking not [...]
