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12.6.1. Logic: Trends
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Trends are a part of the logic cloud, a group of thinking tools and processes that can help you find your way through innovative and creative problems.
Fig. 12.6 The logic cloud When man invented the wheel, he later created the cart and, later again, the train. Trains without wheels would be very slow. Some things lead to other things, and not vice versa. There is a natural progression in invention that you can often spot. Where are you now? What are your current problems? What were yesterday’s problems? What will be the problems after you have solved today’s problems? It is possible to predict how devices develop simply because after a while someone wants something to work better. To work better you have to use smarter science and smarter science has rules built in. Look for trends in activities, such as:
Look at how you or someone else does something and see where they are in
these trends. Now ask yourself, if I were to move one step or two steps along
these trends what benefits would I get. Sometimes moving a long way makes the
device simpler. In one invention we were involved in by moving three steps along
we made the device a fraction of the price and weight and it had much more
functionality and reliability. The less there was there the better it worked! Other parts of the logic cloud are:
Other sections in this chapter are:
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