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Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today. Jeff Jarvis tells Gutenberg's story from an entrepreneurial perspective, examining how he overcame technology hurdles, how he operated with the secrecy of a Steve Jobs, but then shifted to openness, how he raised capital and mitigated risk, and how, in the end, his cash flow and equity structure did him in.

Michael Colburn is an inventor. He wasn't always, but he made himself into one and realized a powerful truth: Inventing is a skill anyone can master. Over the last four decades, he has created inventions and built businesses and partnerships worth millions of dollars based on his inventions. Invent, Innovate, and Prosper is a practical handbook for inventing based on Michael's decades of work as a successful inventor. He shares his step-by-step system for launching profitable inventions, along with the surprising real-life lessons that helped him thrive.

For centuries, the patent has stood as a symbol of invention—a mark of genius, a reward for creativity, a promise that innovation would be protected and shared. But behind this polished image lies a more tangled reality. Patents today are wielded less as shields and more as weapons. They grant monopolies over life-saving drugs, obstruct progress in software and biotechnology, and often reward delay, secrecy, and litigation over actual discovery. In this unflinching exploration, the author traces the journey of the patent system from its noble origins to its increasingly distorted present.

Co może łączyć emancypację kobiet, „Wesele” Wyspiańskiego i prapoczątki ruchu nazistowskiego? To zaskakujące, ale wspólnym ogniwem jest... rower.

Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture...

Congratulations! You have an exciting new invention you know will be snatched up by millions of eager buyers - if you can get it out of your head and onto store shelves. Now what? How can you sell your idea? Alan Beckley, inventor of the Wonder Wallet, answers these questions and more in Daring to Invent - a practical step-by-step guide for moving invention dreams to successful reality. Mr. Beckley has distilled 14 years of experience into a practical eight-step guide to jump start your inventing journey from idea to successful reality.

The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis, and review of the book and not the original book. In The Future Is Faster Than You Think, authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore how the convergence of different technologies will revolutionize the way we eat, work, play, and live.

A businessman struggles with his luggage at an airport and pioneers the wheeled suitcase. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and dreams up the mobile phone. A printer is frustrated by his unpredictable inks and creates the Pantone colour system. Why were these particular people able to identify problems, and how did they discover the solutions that everyone else missed? Where exactly did their great ideas come from, and how did they go about making them into reality?

In clear language, The Innovation Mandate shows leaders a step-by-step process to continually generate great ideas, implement them, and maximize their value to benefit both customers and investors. In today’s ultracompetitive marketplace, the difference between success and failure is...

Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as diverse as transportation, retail, health care, and entertainment. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we apply strategies borrowed from engineering to create useful and inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.

Artificial Intelligence has been a futurist dream for decades but today has finally come of age as the many barriers to its implementation have been overcome. This “new technology” has been at least 80 years in the making and suffered its fair share of disappointments as progress failed to...

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قصة تاريخية ملهمة تكشف كيف تحول منطق صيانة الدراجات البسيط إلى ابتكار هندسي غير وجه الطيران للأبد. استمع إلى سرد آسر يضعك في قلب ورشة مليئة بالبراغي والتروس، حيث...

Supera obstáculos cotidianos diseñando soluciones reales mediante el pensamiento creativo y la ingeniería práctica. Ya sea que te sientas estancado ante un desafío en la oficina, la escuela o el hogar, esta perspectiva transformará tu frustración en una acción estructurada. Deja atrás...

数式や専門用語の壁を越え、日常の小さな不便を画期的な解決策へと変える実践的な工学思考と問題解決のプロセスを鮮やかに描き出す、創造力に火をつける知的なオーディオブックです。通勤中や集中した学習のひとと...

不可能とされた人類の空を飛ぶ夢を、無名の自転車職人が地道な試行錯誤と圧倒的な問題解決力で実現した歴史的イノベーションの軌跡。毎日の通勤電車の中でインスピレーションを求めている時や、静かに没入したい作...

It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest—things are a little disappointing. Despite every World's Fair prediction and the advertisements in comic books, we are not living the future we were promised. By now, life was supposed to be a fully automated, atomic-powered, germ-free Utopia...

When I was growing up, I always thought there were only two ways to get rich. Number one: You were born rich. Number two: Some family member left you a bunch of money when they kicked the bucket. As much as people love to talk up the American dream, I grew up inside the American reality - raised inside a trailer in New Jersey, born to a 14-year-old mother. But now, things are a little different. I've done lots of cool things with my life, but most people know me as "the ab roller guy".

In "How to Become an Inventor," seasoned inventor and product developer Fred Vierheller demystifies the path to successful innovation, blending his extensive experience with a comprehensive, accessible guide for aspiring inventors. This book is a treasure trove of insights, tips, and practical advice, designed to navigate the complex journey from a mere idea to a market-ready invention.