IMAGINATION & CREATIVITY FOR SUCCESSFUL INVENTION

We are in new times and uncharted territory in the saga of enterprise. The United States and the rest of the western world are facing the possibility of no growth or at best very controlled growth for decades or longer. We must create new solutions, products and services as a major component of future sales. Entrepreneurs and managers must rediscover discovery.

MegaMinds: How to Create and Invent in the Age of Google focuses on the mindset and creative process involved to imagine, create and invent in the 21^st century. This book offers a comprehensive picture of how people do very creative thinking and how this can be augmented by the new computer clouds. Larry Kilham reviews the major thinkers such as da Vinci, Edison and Einstein and then moves on to the latest in computer-aided thinking. He reviews artificial intelligence and highlights its limitations and then goes on to explore the possibilities with Google and Web-based connected intelligence.

Examples of MegaMinds at work are drawn from a wide variety of applications ranging from inventing birdfeeders to complex jumbo aircraft design. Larry Kilham combines historical research, current laboratory studies using such modern techniques as fMRI, and his own experience as an inventor with several successful patents in complex technical areas. He offers pointers along the way for everyone from emerging inventors and technical problem solvers to research teams seeking to utilize the best in cognitive science and computer technology.

MegaMinds explains complex and current topics in engaging style that will appeal to everyone from casual readers to scientists and engineers. It is profusely illustrated with detailed and color illustrations as well as a slide show.

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