“The future of modern products is to evolve generationally and become invisible.”

Adam Wood


The Future is Invisible introduces the new concept of Generational Products - products that evolve and endure for a multi-generational lifespan.

Creating new products is risky, expensive and often leads to failure. Companies struggle to create new products, waste trillions of dollars making products that simply don’t last in market and lose to competitors.

We are asked often how entrepreneurs, product owners, corporates and investors can develop foresight to see what comes next so they can make products that will endure. We wrote this book to share our learnings how modern products evolve generationally, enable others to develop foresight and empower product creators to build Generational Products that last.

The book establishes a new framework for product creators and companies of all sizes to build Generational Products that last. There are seven distinct phases that modern products go through on their path to eventually becoming invisible. The framework explores the seven generations: Reactive, Proactive, Instructive, Predictive, Prescriptive, Reductive, and Invisible.

The result is a new way of thinking about creating new products, identifying generational whitespace and a practical framework that shows exactly how to build Generational Products.


Product Generations Framework

The framework includes the 7 generations that a Generational Product progresses through in it’s path to become invisible. A summary of each generation from the book is listed in this section.


Authors

Adam is a product-focused investor and entrepreneur who has created products for startups, huge companies and his own ventures over the last 25 years. He specializes in identifying whitespace for new products and building -5 to 0 to 1 to scale generational and triple-bottom line focused products. He has had the good fortune to work with some of the best companies in the world including Amazon, American Express, Microsoft, 3M, NEC, Wisdo and many others. Adam has collaborated on new products that were named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Company list in 2016 and 2019.

Cheri Hanson

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Cheri is a writer who distills complex ideas into engaging stories. She began her career as a print journalist, before shifting to content development for companies including Microsoft, Airbnb, Giant Bicycles, Wisdo, F5, Bocci, Stand.earth, The Sunrise Project, and more. She has collaborated with creative agencies including Cossette, BSTRO, Denman Digital, Storydriven, Mindseye, and Neon. Cheri is also the ghostwriter and co-author of several non-fiction books for publishers including Wiley and Penguin Random House.


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