Lately, I've been participating in frequent brainstorming (BS) sessions to create ideas for inventions.

When it comes to invention creation, there is an unspoken rule of "no negative comments" in the middle of the BS.

One of the reasons is that in order to create an invention, "destruction" of the current paradigm of common sense is a prerequisite.

Simply, it is

"Creating an image of the world where "insane" is the norm"

more simply, it is

"Creating 'another world'"

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I've recently discovered that, compared to others, I seem to be relatively 'good' at this 'another worldly' construction.

I like to think of the "insane world".

For example,

(1) A world where it is confirmed that the missile will land in three minutes → Damage is inevitable, but what is the information system to minimize this damage?

(2) More than half of the stations in Japan have a maximum temperature of over 40 degrees Celsius for 20 straight days → How do we treat tens of thousands of heatstroke patients a day, in tens of thousands of orders, by means other than medical equipment?

(3) A world where the fertility rate has fallen to 0.5 → What are the methods of raising and educating children in a world where the existence of children is rare?

And, well, thinking about the world of extremes in this way helps us to see the "challenges".

"Invention" is not hard. What is really hard is to find the "problem that requires the invention".

It is true that.

(To be continued)