Bret Swanson is president of Entropy Economics, a technology research firm advising institutional investors and technology companies, and a visiting fellow and advisory council member of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. He was previously a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he co-founded the technology research program. In 2022, Bret launched Infonomena, a new tech and economics channel on Substack. Bret was executive editor of the Gilder Technology Report, and has been a fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation and the U.S. Chamber Foundation. He writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal and for many years wrote a column for Forbes.com. Bret is chairman and, since 2009, a trustee of the Indiana Public Retirement System (INPRS), the state’s $50-billion pension fund where he also chairs the investment working group. His research has predicted a “Coming Productivity Boom” based on artificial intelligence; pioneered a new theory of the economic rise of China; projected an “exaflood” of Web video; anticipated the shale hydrocarbon boom; and advanced a new concept linking information theory and entrepreneurial economics. Bret studied economics at Princeton University and began his career as an aide to Sen. Richard Lugar and as an economic analyst for former Rep. Jack Kemp.