3rd Key to Nations’ Success - Simplification

3rd Key to Nations’ Success - S
2010 03 10
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Solvere Lim Swee Keng

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Simplification

Leaders cannot be functioning by eloquent speeches done, technology most advanced, spending coffer undone.

Leaders must invent more effective, efficient and elegant solutions.

Solution, inventing good solution is the key.
What is an invention?

What is an invention?
An invention is one that has fewer components, simpler, smaller; perform more, bigger, faster, easier.
This is the first principle of invention – well known requirement for filing patent.
This is shared among nations, with no exception.
This is not ideology; this is wisdom crystallized from centuries long scientific research, technological innovation.

Drainage systems is one of the most ancient invention, drainage maintains its primary importance even in most modern metropolis today – wisdom of our fathers dictated that no drains should be concealed.

However, Technology, Machineries make digging drains a breeze.
Therefore, more drains are dug. They are dug deeper, concealed, until it consumes more imported sand, cement, granite than building a house, the road.
They also becomes so difficult to maintain.
This is a common error in drainage design committed not just in rich metropolis, it happened even in remote fishing villages like Balai, Indonesia.

If the corridors on the second floor of ENV buildings got flooded - sending canteen operator sweeping in the storm is not a solution.
Flooding on second floor of Autobay in Bedok, built years latter certainly is no surprises - more, bigger floor trap, bigger inlet while keeping the drain pipe horizontal, without slope is not a solution either.

This is not the most costly mistake, a major mistake even after cost of labors, sand, cement skyrocketed.
Action is further taken to complicate, intensify matters - by expanding the cavity under the cover so that man can enter, access and perform cleaning and maintenance.

Make simple complex, make obvious concealed, adding many to one.
These are enlarging, propagating what is already wrong – can wrong not be multiplied, magnified, proliferate everywhere?

There will be no ending to this wasteful approach.
No coffer can support such costly expedition.
But the worst is human brains are left idling while lips asking for more land for drains, bigger budgets, more shopping trips.

This is a Technology crisis, it is parallel to Financial Crisis – inventing derivatives from what is already direct and measurable …
Financial Crisis resulted in few billionaires committed suicide. But it does not take away life directly.

Technology crisis impact not just market, systems, corporations, also life and safety.
Technology crisis is indeed a bigger crisis.

To solve this crisis, to keep the excessive brains, labors fully employed in constructive work, is to demand every idea, solution, machine, instrument, policy, law to be simplified, solve with fewer, smaller, lighter, everything made concise, easier, faster, less energy use.

The very first requirement for Invention is therefore Invention must be simpler than prior arts.

With this approach, computer used to be bigger than a train cabin, over 40 tons, consume 15 kilowatts, own by Defense department, operated by experts to make only Hydrogen Bomb.
Today, even less brainy know how to operate computers by dragging, clicking mouse and playing with his children at home thousands miles away.

This is the most important yardstick, not only more nations can afford simplified solutions, many difficult problems found simple, affordable solutions.

This will not just expand the economy, reduce the cost of living, it also inspires all the brains to engaged in elaborate considerations of every aspect of natural sciences and human behaviors.

With this sharing, I hope the world will start to evaluating everything at hand, and trying to simplify every aspect of all machines, construction, market, methods.

“Post Industrialization Dynamos” Autumn 2009, ISBN 9810 833558 detailed four key improvements encompass all aspects of machines, markets, societies.

The explanation here is adequate for policy maker to take position and set direction for technocrats to elaborate and implement, verify through experiments in real life.

One proven implementation is by rally forces inherent in water flow to concentrate and elevate flotsam to an easily accessible collection point and drip dry – there is no machinery, no power needed yet the filter is always clear, the flotsam so easy to collect – even by less agile, aged workforce.

This is one of the ways to address aging population - design jobs for the aged.

“Effective Separation, Easy Maintenance” Jointly invented with Leung Chi Lam. Solvere shared with Public Utility Board since 2005, Patent jointly filed with Leung Chi Lam IPOS200806192-4, partially implemented by Ch2M at Kallang River.

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