Knowledge as a form of compounding wealth
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By Michael Kreil - Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

By compounding I mean it builds on itself as you gather more. In essence the knowledge you gain today can pay dividends for you tomorrow (perhaps literally if we can build a proper knowledge economy!). In many of my posts I discuss Agoras and for those who do not know, it is the token funding the Tauchain project.  Agoras is intended to be an intelligent market place with a particular special category called the "knowledge market". The challenge here is to figure out a way to capture knowledge from participants and then to monetize that captured knowledge. 

If we assume Tauchain works as currently being discussed then knowledge can be captured using a knowledge representation language and the human being who inputs new knowledge into the knowledge base is called a "knowledge engineer".  Agoras makes it possible to monetize that process and if that happens then you literally have a market for knowledge and perhaps not only humans will be able to build up a knowledge base.

Before a mathematician corrects me, no it is not an explicit fact that knowledge is guaranteed to compound on itself. It is merely my observation that it does. 


References
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1. http://www.tauchain.org 
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_engineering
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_economy
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_society
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_market