By Rias J van Wyk at ProductCamp Twin Cities 2016 The true origins of the concept "technology" The growth of technological knowledge and the first key to orderly technology management and policy The loss of the first key and the emergence of un-systematised knowledge Steps towards the creation of a new key Links to present research on the systematisation of technological knowledge

1. Technology:
The Forgotten Science
Product Camp Twin Cities,
Worrell Design
1414 Marshall street NE
November 12, 2016
(Slides edited: November 13, 2016)
Rias J van Wyk
Director: Technoscan Centre
Edina, MN 55439, USA
E-mail: fisheagle2001@yahoo.com

2. Purpose
To propose a new key for systematized technological
knowledge as a basis for systematic innovation

3. The evolution of technological knowledge
Early
history
18th and 19th
centuries
Two independent sources
19th and 20th centuries
Merging of sources
20th and 21st centuries
Creating a new key
Non-
system-
atized
10000
years of
know-how
Non-systematized
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith (1776)
•Non-systematic innovation
•The “invisible hand”
•Silent on “technology “
Non-systematized
•Non-systematic
innovation
•“Technology” looses
unique meaning
•No longer a science
Systematization being
planned
*New body of
knowledge
*Systematic innovation
Systematized
Anleitung zur Technology
Johann Beckmann (1777)
•Systematic innovation
•“Technology” as a science
•Dominates for a century
Copyright 2016: Rias van Wyk, Technoscan Centre,, Edina, MN 55439

4. Altschuller, Genrich:
TRIZ
Kauffman, Stuart:
The Adjacent
Possible
Ackoff, Russell:
Idealized Design/
Interactive Planning
Filkovsky, Genadi:
Systematic
Inventive Thinking
De Bono. Edward:
Lateral Thinking
Douglas, Graham/
Martin, Roger:
Integrative Thinking
Zwicky, Fritz:
Morphological
Analysis
Alexander,
Christopher:
Design Patterns
Van Wyk, Rias:
A Core Theory of
Technology
Wilber, Ken:
Integral Theory/
A Theory of
Everything
Quimby, D. (2015) Anatomy of Disruption: Systematic Innovation and Product Development,
Virtual coast Associates, Inc.
The Quimby Palette:
Bases for Systematic Innovation

5. Five features
Dominant
feature
Name of body
of knowledge
Unit of
study
Natural order
of units
Totality of
all units
Copyright 2016: Rias van Wyk, Technoscan Centre,, Edina, MN 55439, USA
Basic template for a physical science

6. Five features
Functionality
Body of technological
knowledge
Technology
capsule
Functionality
grid
Techno-
sphere
Copyright 2016: Rias van Wyk, Technoscan Centre,, Edina, MN 55439, USA
Template for systematized technological knowledge

7. Functionality grid
Output
Matter
(M)
Energy
(E)
Information
(I)
Action
Process
Transport
Store
Van Wyk, Rias J: Technology - A Unifying Code, 2004, SMG, Cape Town, p. 34
Based on: Ropohl, Gunter: Eine Systemtheorie der Technik, 1979, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich and Vienna, p. 178.

8. Body of
technological
knowledge
Basis for
systematic
innovation
Guide to impact
investment
An inclusive view
of all technologies
showing their
orderly, unifying,
relationship
Bridge between
science and
application
A new
academic field
2016© Rias van Wyk, Technoscan®.Centre, Edina, MN 55439 USA
Using the new body of technological knowledge