Why is more always better? It seems today that in our society here in North America, we are always looking for things that "do more". The more features or gadgets an item has, the more value we seem to perceive in that item. Our vehicles, homes, electronics, appliances .... just about anything we own, are all marketed based on having more and more features, most of which we will never use. We say we want simplicity, but we will only look for it when the simplicity is packaged as "easy to use" rather than performing one function well without all the bells and whistles.
Here is an idea. What if dropped our feature laden, "easy to use" technologies for simpler, more efficient ones that left a smaller footprint from a resource point of view. What if we kept to the truly simple things that make life more serene rather than the technologies that simply allow us to do more? Could we even now do without many of the things that we perceive as connecting us and yet seem to allow us to drift farther apart? I am not sure we could. What I am sure is that it would be interesting to see what would happen if enough of us gave it a try.
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