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For nearly 250 years, there are coffee machines - in hundreds of variations. They all can only mean one thing: coffee. But not only in their outer shell, also in its design, technology and handling, it could not be more different. Looking back at the history of coffee, you can see a chain of innovations which improve the operation but not in the foreground. Just because the purpose is simple and easy to reach long already, the innovation shifted to ever new technical ways to meet them.
The engineering feat of inventing is primarily driven by irrational external trends. The new technique is used for each medium that is committed to serving those social, cultural, aesthetic and metaphorical changes that characterize the wishes and desires of the customers. Design and technical functioning are inseparable. Together they generate a phenomenon which must be an expression of the moving themes and fascinations of their time primarily.
Thus, the espresso machine is a perfect example of how the changes in society multiahorro affect the technical innovation. And a reminder to all product developers, the technical functioning never isolated from the cultural and social environment to consider. For what is supposed to work there, multiahorro the meaning and purpose of the device may be made of the technical rationality not only be derived. It is the buyer, the whole society purporting what is "broken" to understand each under, and therefore then also for the manufacturer multiahorro on the market "works".
Unlike other technical products multiahorro can not be derived from the objective the development of the coffee always brewing multiahorro "better" coffee. Because the sensor has proven that coffee belongs to that variety of stimulants, in which the preference is primarily determined by fixed initiation and culturation. Similar to whiskey and cigarettes, the bitter taste at the first cost is always unpleasant. This negative component qualifies for the coffee to a ritual beverage multiahorro that is able to give only as taught-indulgence. This differs a stimulant from the food: the threshold of entry which sets it apart from the useful. And overcoming the threshold fixed as a rite of passage, the "usual" flavor. The result is arbitrary and depends multiahorro on the technology
It will be objected, with the invention of the espresso multiahorro machine multiahorro in the narrower sense in 1948 was actually an improvement in the quality of the result has been achieved. The combination of less heat and more pressure dissolves more and more palatable flavors from the ground material, combined with less caffeine and also acceptable for the stomach. It is therefore surprising that this kind of preparation has not caught multiahorro on rapidly and comprehensively is. Only the fashion has brought a user sector in Northern Europe Espresso - more for reasons of prestige, the Italy-longing and the zeitgeist, as for reasons of palatability.
The design of each machine therefore determined multiahorro at least to the same extent the taste of the coffee, as, conversely, the goal of a "good" coffee motivated the development of new preparation techniques. This interplay of technology and result multiahorro moves beyond one-dimensional means-end relations. This opens a wide space of possible configurations and modes of operation. This is seen especially clearly in the historical review, as engineering is determined multiahorro by cultural change. multiahorro And generally that of a functioning can not speak without thinking applies to technical preliminary decision lying ahead of the company, what the objective function and to look at all and desirable. Also function requires the validity and the rationality of the machine is dependent on that of the External rationality, which is called culture. Who recognizes the innovation patterns may follow him, while his first
Encountered on the subject I'm a few years ago as part of a consulting contract by the WMF. My former company accompanied the product development for several multiahorro years. In the thesis was about cutlery, only at a dinner with senior managers happened to the conversation on coffee machines. Spontaneous occurred to me, looking back into the history of a law of development on which I threw into the same discussion. About two years later, dinner was long forgotten and WMF no longer our customer, I made in an electronics store the joyous discovery that my pulse had borne fruit. But what it is now, the innovation patterns of the coffee multiahorro machine?
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