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| Mark Dean Invented the 1 Gigahertz Chip patented for IBM |
America’s ability to ride the economic tides of the
twenty-first century are largely dependent on our ability to create new products
that generate an international demand.
By products I do not just mean record sales or the next great American
novel, I mean new technology! Right now
there are several wide open markets just waiting for new innovative products to
be designed, patented, marketed and distributed across the globe, one of them
is the new realm of green products another is innovative means of generating
energy.
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| George Crum Invented the Potato Chip in 1853 |
But in order for someone to be able to brainstorm and market
a new technology they would have to have several skill sets under their belt
and a large amount of capital as well as lots of free time to research,
experiment and refine their concept design.
Another unavoidable dynamic of this scenario is that they will have to
team up with other people with specialized technical expertise in order to pull
the dream off. Pulling together a
unified team is one thing but maintaining quality control and focus is another,
nevertheless these are challenges that other inventors have successfully overcome
for many thousands of years of human history.
Pulling it off is not only highly, “Doable” but it is also highly
desirable in order to gain some measure of economic and occupational freedom in
a world that is still largely driven by megabusinesses.
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| Jan Ernst Maltzaliger Invented the Shoe Lasting Machine in 1882 |
The best teams might be formed by persons who are already
working full time jobs but are able to devote a certain predetermined hours of
work daily as part of a working product development plan. Breaking these tasks up into smaller teams of
two or more would even ensure a greater level of productivity. I envisage these design teams as “Think Tanks”
initially organised to develop research teams which focus on diverse and
perhaps unrelated areas identified as potentially untapped or substantially
open markets for innovation. Eventually the
teams would either produce substantive data leading to the exploration of a
product design or digress to other areas driven by their research. All information would be valuable and perhaps
might end up leading to some unforeseen breakthrough further down the
line. The purpose of the teams is to
prove that two, three, four or more heads are always better than one.
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| In 1912 Garrett Morgan Invented and patented a Gas Mask |
Technology is what ultimately drives civilisation, it
creates culture and the lack of technological advances stagnates and eventually
kills human civilisation.
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| Garrett Morgan |
Creating new
and innovative technologies should be on the front burner of all American
businesses. Due to the evolution of
American culture one individual may no longer have sufficient time, money and
resources to conceptualize, research, experiment, develop and market a new
product alone so a team of like-minded persons working as a think tank is the next
best alternative.
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| Elijiah McCoy |
Those who make the
quantum leap to experiment with this method of product development might find
themselves on the cusp of one of the greatest innovations of the twenty-first
century, they might though hard work and cooperation find one day that
something they imagined has come to fruition and has a new patent pending.
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In 1872 Elijiah McCoy invented the Self-Dripping Oil Cup for Trains, hence the origin
of the saying "The Real McCoy". |
Written by David Vollin
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