--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 2 description: Archiving the internet, how cost-cutting hurts military innovation, focusing businesses on responsiveness instead of innovation and more. canonical: https://time.com/3692016/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-2/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-02T17:01:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:54.601Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Archiving the internet, how cost-cutting hurts military innovation, focusing businesses on responsiveness instead of innovation and more og:url: https://time.com/3692016/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Archiving the internet, how cost-cutting hurts military innovation, focusing businesses on responsiveness instead of innovation and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 2 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 2, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 2, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job.**](https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351) By Andy Baio in the Message **2\.** [**Cost-cutting is killing U.S. military innovation.**](http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-military-technology-budget-cuts-by-dan-steinbock-2015-01) By Dan Steinbock in Project Syndicate **3\.** [**We should streamline the patchwork of state licenses and certifications required for many jobs.**](http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2015/01/27/the-obama-administration-goes-after-bad-labor-market-regulations/) By Adam Ozimek in Forbes **4\.** [**Focusing on responsiveness over efficiency can spur business breakthroughs.**](http://firstround.com/article/Responsiveness-New-Efficiency) By First Round Review **5\.** [**A new concept for a cheaper, lighter space telescope could reach 1,000 times the resolution of Hubble.**](http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/01/23/new-space-telescope-concept-could-image-objects-far-higher-resolution) By the University of Colorado Boulder  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3692016/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3692016/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-2/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 2","datePublished":"2015-02-02T17:01:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:54.601Z","description":"Archiving the internet, how cost-cutting hurts military innovation, focusing businesses on responsiveness instead of innovation and more.","url":"https://time.com/3692016/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-2/","keywords":["Innovation","Space","Google","States","Business topic","Hubble","Telescope","efficiency","Library","the Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3692016/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-2/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 2"}}]}] ```