Created: 2021-03-06T17:06:11-06:00
Russian theory on analyzing inventions and creating a framework to design new inventions.
TRIZ: Theory of inventive problem solving.
Contradiction: Two opposing factors. Wanting two things that do not fit together.
Idle resources: Something which already exists in the environment but is not being used.
Ideality: The ideal (possibly unreachable) state of a system.
Increasing ideality: When a change brings something closer to its ideal target state.
XXX they listed two kinds of contradictions; didn't recall it
Fixing problems is a matter of resolving contradictions where they "increase ideality."