Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World - Couverture rigide

Kennedy, Pagan

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ISBN 10 : 0544324005 ISBN 13 : 9780544324008

Editeur : Eamon Dolan / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016

Synopsis

Find out where great ideas come from.

A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die.

By studying inventions like these — the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed — we can learn how people imagine their way around "impossible" problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities.   

 

Inventology uses the stories of inventors and surprising research to reveal the steps that produce innovation. As Kennedy argues, recent advances in technology and communication have placed us at the cusp of a golden age; it's now more possible than ever before to transform ideas into actuality. Inventology is a must-read for designers, artists, makers—and anyone else who is curious about creativity. By identifying the steps of the invention process, Kennedy reveals the imaginative tools required to solve our most challenging problems.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Complicated, cool, and vulnerable at the same time ... You can't help falling for Pagan Kennedy's characters." — New York Times on The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories "A page-turner that illuminates as it breaks the heart." — Philadelphia Inquirer on Black Livingstone, a New York Times Notable Book, Boston Phoenix top-ten nonfiction book of the year, and winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction "Pagan Kennedy, queen of the zines, writes with a sweet, trenchant wit and the delicacy of a modern-day Chekhov." — San Francisco Chronicle on Brain-o-matic "It's absolutely wonderful. What it makes me want to do is to go back to Ireland today and get writing again, you know?" — Roddy Doyle, in an interview with The Literary Review, on Spinsters, a Barnes & Noble Discover pick

"[Inventology] offers a new perspective into the process of invention that will inform and illuminate."

—Publishers Weekly "'Inventology'" may be a real science; researchers are beginning to study it, and teachers are teaching it. Some 21st-century creations (crowdfunding, 3D printing) are breaking down barriers (money, time) between new ideas and a useful product, so a golden age of innovation seems in the offing. A delightful account of how inventors do what they do." —Kirkus, Starred

Présentation de l'éditeur

Find out where great ideas come from. A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die.    By studying inventions like these — the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed — we can learn how people imagine their way around "impossible" problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities.        Inventology uses the stories of inventors and surprising research to reveal the steps that produce innovation. As Kennedy argues, recent advances in technology and communication have placed us at the cusp of a golden age; it's now more possible than ever before to transform ideas into actuality.  Inventology is a must-read for designers, artists, makers—and anyone else who is curious about creativity. By identifying the steps of the invention process, Kennedy reveals the imaginative tools required to solve our most challenging problems.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eamon Dolan / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0544324005
• ISBN 13: 9780544324008
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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