Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology?

himitsu writes "In an article titled 'The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine,' Wired claims that the future of technology, warfare and medicine will be filled with 'good enough' solutions; situations where feature-rich and expensive products are replaced with bare-bones infrastructures and solutions. 'We now favor flexibility over high fidelity, convenience over features, quick and dirty over slow and polished. Having it here and now is more important than having it perfect. These changes run so deep and wide, they're actually altering what we mean when we describe a product as "high-quality."'"

Comments

Re:It most certainly seems to be the present of Li

[jedidiah]

So? If you brought this grave problem to the attention of the average Windows user they
wouldn't have any clue what you are talking about. Trying this test with MacOS users
won't cause you to fare any better.

Some bitter old Atari ST users might actually be aware of what you're talking about.

Clearly the Lemming Trolls have to find more obscure "multimedia problems" to whine
about since the more mainstream use cases no longer favor Windows or MacOS.

Re:already the case

[commodore64_love]

My car falls into that "category" - a cheap car that cost me $13,900. Actually $11,000 after I subtracted Maryland's and the USA's hybrid tax credit. It gets over 80 MPG for me, which is great, but what I've sacrificed to get that goal takes some getting used to. Like narrow motorcycle-like tires which follow all the grooves in the road. Tight suspension that makes you feel every bump in the road. Wipers that move so slow you wonder why you even bothered to turn them on. And a radio system that sounds anemic due to speakers that are too small.

BTW the car I'm discussing is a 2001 Honda Insight, which was discontinued to to lack of interest by Americans who back then wanted gas-guzzling SUVs. I like it because it's "good enough" for my daily commute but many Americans (and even some Europeans) would probably say it isn't good enough.

Oh and since this is a computer-oriented site:

My desktop PC is only 1/2 gig of RAM, and my laptop only 800 megahertz speed. Again that's "good enough" for me. I don't think I need anything faster for just getting online and watching videos or chatting.