Choose a product found in a kitchen (e.g. knife, stove etc …).
1. What are the 4 key ideas that needed to come together for the category of product to arise and when did they occur? Justify why you believe these are the key innovations. Consider if the product would still have arisen if these innovation hadn’t occurred.
Note by ‘category’ I mean (for example) all knives, not just a specific brand of knife. To take the example of a car (because it is not from the kitchen), candidates for key ideas would be the development of the wheel, metallurgy, combustion engine, petroleum refinery, public infrastructure to enable roads.
2. What are the recent innovations that have occurred in the product category, specifically in the last 10 years? Again, justify why you believe these are the key innovations.
3. Predict 2 key innovations to this product that could occur over the next 10 years? Why?
4. In the distant future, e.g. 50 to 100 years, will the product still exist if not what has replaced it? If so, what crazy futuristic features could it have?