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:Windows Vista: "Good Enough" is the right answe

[Ex-MislTech]

Mod parent up !

this is not a new situation

[Keith_Beef]

Good enough and affordable ALWAYS wins against excellent but unaffordable.

Also, never forget that in the USA and increasingly in the rest of the world, marketing trumps engineering.

Finally, the USA is the home of the "quantity beats quality" mantra.

'Nuff said.

K.

Re:Windows Vista: "Good Enough" is the right answe

[lennier]

"The most well-known example of technology overkill is Windows XP and its successors. Think about it for a minute. How many of the functions in these operating systems do you actually use? "

And yet a simple thing like managing .ISO files - which, you know, comes under the "disk operating" part of "system" - is apparently still far beyond Windows XP's capabilities.