The Basic Definition of Inspiring Technology

The Inspiring Technology is concerned with establishing a new scientific foundation which integrates human system theories with modern technologies to develop a new generation of products that can inspire human potentials while achieving their intended functional purposes.

The Inspiring Technology is a new concept that can lead to the development of the next generation products, which overcomes some fundamental limitations of those existing product development approaches. All existing products to date are developed with the basic assumption that human (i.e., users) is a hierarchical system, a well-established view by the Western medical community. Product functions are defined according to the Newtonian framework, with the primary goal of replacing or subsidizing some specific human functions with added speed, ease and convenience. Ironically, as these products become more powerful and/or affordable, a human being himself becomes less capable. Worse yet, due to the hierarchical paradigm in human factor design, these products sooner or later become a health hazard to their users. It is clear that this established product paradigm has reached its fundamental limitation, which, in turn, will restrict the future growth of industries that are based on product development and manufacturing.

The Inspiring Technology concept was conceived to overcome the above limitation. The core idea behind this new concept comes from a different assumption about the human system, which is the foundation of all product design. Unlike the Western approach that treats human as a hierarchical system, the Inspiring Technology takes the Oriental thinking which models a human as a fractal system that interacts with the environment in a holistic manner. The implications of this different assumption are very profound, especially in challenging our innovation in developing the next generation products in terms of what they can, and should, do for the human.

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