Most ideas start as 'ideas'; abstract implementations existing in a (human's) mind.
The two most obvious patterns signifying an idea's life time are a 'trend' or a 'fad'.
Fads tend to shoot up quickly then suddenly die with no warnings. During their shooting time, fans of fads feel so confident about growing in to a trend, and feel so down when their raging idea diminishes.
Trends on the other hand, are ideas that flourish gradually and strongly replacing any fads they meet in their way. Trends are hard to achieve, and their achievement clearly proves the rigidness of their contained idea.
No matter what the background theme is, fads and trends are reliable recognition patterns that can be consistently used to identify an idea's progress. However, the judgement cant take place until a reasonable amount of time has passed.
From my humble observations, i can say that the fad to trend ratio is 99 to 1, i.e. from every hundred ideas we've got about 1 trend and 99 fads. At least this works fine for product ideas rising from the commercial industry.
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Hi Susan,
I never uploaded audio to any blog before. I think you should ask someone else.
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