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Exercises

7 September, 2015 - 12:02
  1. You are able to go back in time to visit members of your local neighborhood in the 1900's. What would be the “new” knowledge you would share with them? What innovations would be the most important to you and why?
  2. You are able to go forward in time to your local neighborhood in the year 2075. What do you imagine, as a time-traveler from the present, would be some of the future innovations that you would observe? How would they change human societies? What innovations do would be the most important to you and why?
  3. You have been hired as a systems innovator to design a new cell phone network for 500,000 subscribers. You are wise enough to include the requirement of future growth of the cell phone network to individual additional subscribers. What other requirements might be worth considering when you design the system? What requirements might influence the success (or failure) of the designed system?
  4. If you could work on designing any innovation, what would it be and why? Would you create something new or extend an existing system? What requirements and other concerns would you need to consider in designing your innovation? What benefits do you think would occur if you could achieve your innovation as you imagine it?