Breaking paradigm

I recalled that we are all stuck in our paradigm, thus it is hard to come up with innovation in our field of work.

1.      Technology

For experts in a technical field, if you wanted to implement a feature, you would have to follow certain steps to achieve that.

Personally I have been working in many fields of technologies such as wireless telecommunication, web based services, RFID field, databases, etc. Therefore I have acquired knowledge or good stuff from many fields.

a.      For my special firewall, I had used my knowledge in cellular telephony with protocol. I had come up with analysis of a protocol message to filter and to analyze unwanted stuff to protect my PC. Hackers threatened to attack my PC while I was away, thus unattended mode was on my paper.

-         With the architect of the APZ of Ericsson central processor, it would be easy to capture and analyze messages coming in or out of our PC.

-         Microsoft Windows programming language was not good to perform this task. The threats or link of functions would be long and stack may be over flow.

Ericsson came up with APY, which is an updated version of APZ, offered databases like MSSQL or Oracle database. This would make developing my special firewall easier. This is to bring best stuff from database into APZ, which only supported file structures. APZ’s best is to support protocol-like programming language, PLEX-C. By the way, Ericsson came up with APY for other applications, i.e. not for my special firewall.

Microsoft is working on a new version of Windows with similar structure as APY to support protocol programming. This would be useful or fast processing for Internet communications.

Why didn’t they see this special firewall before me? Perhaps computer experts [need firewall] was stuck in their programming world. They didn’t apply expertise of telecommunication in computer applications.

b.      Mobile router

I had used knowledge in both computer and wireless telecommunication to come up with this idea since introduction of GPRS, i.e. before year 2000. A that time, we had to connect our PC to a modem using Ethernet cable, i.e. cable running all over the house or room to room. I thought of using a mobile phone as an adapter/modem to provide wireless Internet to a PC, thus we would be able to use a PC anywhere with a mobile phone. Currently WiFi is available, thus using a mobile phone as a mobile router to provide wireless Internet is feasible.

Why didn’t they see this? Again they had separated telecom and datacom as 2 separate fields. They came up with a wireless stick connecting to a laptop to provide Internet, i.e. more expensive to users, because users have to pay wireless subscriptions to both a mobile phone and a wireless stick. If a mobile phone was a mobile router or mobile modem/adapter, users would only pay for unlimited data for his/her mobile phone. The mobile phone would provide wireless Internet for a laptop anywhere.

I was in both world and did apply as needed. Of course we may need to modify this and that to get jobs done.

2.      Economy and banking notes

To be clear, I am not an expert in these fields. I have read many articles and used knowledge in other fields in another field to resolve issues.

Experts in a field didn’t cross the line, thus they’re stuck with their paradigm.

3.      Breaking your paradigms would help you to get something done like what I did.

Try to use good stuff from another field, modify those to apply in another field to resolve issues.

“Trial and error” was the first lesson that we learnt in engineering. Therefore, we should prepare to tailor and adjust our solution as we go, i.e. new data may emerge to change our planned paths, and thus we would need to adjust our plan and solution to achieve our goal.

The bottom line is to achieve our goal. Do we really care how we get there?