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Simplicity! A radical idea!
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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Comment by Erin Sammons on April 12, 2010 at 5:45am
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not only do we look for things that 'do more' we also look for things in smaller and smaller sizes that cost far more... I know for a fact that my grandfather has a far better grasp on his desk top computer than my laptop - simplicity may be fast becoming a past idea... small and complicated seems to be the new design code.
If we can design smaller devices that hold more than their larger competition why can't we design things the same size that are more beneficial for our environment? I'm sure that would use just as much money as micro-sizing everything =)
What I'm trying to say is I agree with your opinion - very nice blog I enjoyed reading it very much =)
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Comment by Sayel Cortes on April 12, 2010 at 6:04am
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I completely agree Drew! I believe this idea of more is better come (at least in part) from the economic perspective that if you have more you have more options so you can discard those that doesn´t fit you. The bad thing is that thanks to that we now have lots of options we don´t need and yet we have to pay for them (either with money or using valuable natural resources).
I think, as you say, that we should use our development to get simpler and better things. Furthermore I think we should try to do some mind switch to try to live a simpler life. I find so happy with myself as now I don´t have a car and I try to keep my mind and my needs as simple as possible. As a result I just don´t save more money than my friends but I'm also way more relaxed as I started to care about less things (which in turns helps me to care better about the few things I really think are important)
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