inventing into the future - create inventions by projecting current trends - power storage devices
Are you a creative thinker?
Entrepreneurs?
Try to research current trends with your creative ability and project them to the future.
The future trend is to identify huge "seeds" of potentially valuable inventions ".
Current trends you can develop valuable inventions by looking at current trends and predicting them into the future.
Specifically, study current trends to predict future trends.
When forecasting trends in the future, consider all the forces that may affect the trend
Economic impact, changes in technology, changes in business practices (
Businesses that extend or transfer activities to the Internet), and so forth.
How will these forces be combined with each other to influence current trends?
When you anticipate current trends to the future, consider the impact of trend changes on current products and services.
This is a great opportunity to use your brainstorming, mind maps, and skilled techniques to predict future trends.
When looking forward to future trends, please consider :-
What products or services have been eliminated in future trends? -
Are future trends creating new categories of products or services? -
Will trend changes enhance or modify existing products or services? -
What new problems will the future trend bring?
Create Solutions to develop new inventions by solving problems arising from future trends or creating new products or services that support future trends.
Due to this future trend, which new products or services will be commercially viable?
Can you find ways to solve inefficiencies and other problems in future trends?
All of these solutions are potential inventions that may have significant commercial value.
Use your forwarding
The ability to create these inventions today.
For example, to illustrate an example of predicting current trends, we turn back time and put ourselves in the late 1980 s.
The two popular consumer devices at that time were: 1.
Personal computer
Although not as powerful as today, many people used PCs in the 1980 s.
A personal computer contains storage devices that store various types of data used by a computer, such as hard disk drives. 2.
Video Recorder (VCRs)
It is a popular consumer device for recording TV programs and playing pre-recorded content such as movies.
Video recorders use tape to store video data.
Imagine yourself as an inventor in the late 1980 s and you start thinking about the future trends.
You predict that PCs will continue to grow in computing power, storage power, etc.
Based on the computer advances seen in previous years, this is reasonable.
You can also treat VCR as a "video storage device ".
When you realize that a hard drive in a personal computer can store any type of data (
Text data, audio data, video data, etc)
You think about the possibility of storing video data (
Television Broadcasting)
On the hard drive.
As a result, the hard drive becomes a replacement for the tape in the VCR.
In the 1980 s, for consumer devices, the cost of a hard drive that can store video data for hours could be too high.
However, if you see the trend that computing power and storage capacity will increase rapidly as the price of the computing system decreases, future opportunities are possible.
Combined with this trend and the development of new video compression algorithms to reduce the size of video data to be stored, a brand new product category has been created --
Digital video recorder (DVRs).
According to a recent report, the digital video recorder (DVRs)
Now used in 22% of the U. S. households -
You may have it yourself.
What trends can you look at today that may produce popular products or services in the future?
Take a look at current products and services, as well as current trends, and try to invent some of the products and services of the future.
Although it may take years for the technology to develop in a way that makes the invention commercially viable, the inventions may have significant future value.