More of those worried emails from people looking at breakthepatentstranglehold.com:
If the TRIZ Trends tell us all the future and prevents any future patentable inventions, what happens to my creativity? Why do we need creative people? What do the creative people do? Is there a point to our existence any more?

Sometimes, I wonder whether there ever was. I can be too sceptical sometimes.

I think creative people have a place in life. Albeit not the one most of them think it ought to be. If they don’t know TRIZ, frankly they’re not going to help anyone ‘be creative’. If they do know TRIZ, their creative value is in going beyond the Trends. It is in revealing the Trends we don’t know are Trends yet.

It is jumping off the intellectual cliff, finding the new ‘creativity S-Curve’.

It is about thinking harder and better than we currently do.

Perhaps the real problem with so-called creative people is they’re the ones – in my experience at least – who are least willing to get outside the ‘comfort zones’ they’re always accusing others of being stuck in.

It seems the least creative people I ever encounter are the people working in the creative professions. Most of them seem blind to the problem. All they seem to see is a world full of non-creative people that never listen to their ‘out of the box’ ideas. Never realising that the reason no-one listens is lack of ideas was never the problem. The real issue is lack of good problem definitions. Definitions like, ‘what happens when we go beyond this Trend pattern? Why does the Trend end here? What’s the contradiction between this Trend and that one?

Finding answers is easy. The true creatives are the ones who create better questions. That’s the new job. Same as the old job. Except now TRIZ confirms it for us.