Inventology How We Dream up Things That Change the World

Name: Inventology How We Dream up Things That Change the World
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ISBN: 9780544811928

ISBN-10: 0544811925

ISBN-13: 9780544811928

Edition: 2016

Authors: Pagan Kennedy

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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.…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/13/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Pagan Kennedy is the author of the acclaimed novel "Spinsters, " which was short-listed for Britain's Orange Prize for fiction, as well as "Stripping and Other Stories, Pagan Kennedy's Living, Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s, " and "'Zine." A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.