Simplistic Complexities!!!
This seems to rub off on
everything else as well. Take your car for an example. I remember our family’s
monster Dodge, half the size of a truck, with complete 7 mm hard steel shell,
weighing over a ton. It had just one simple key hole to start the car, shift
those gears and off you go. Today, when I near my car, it senses my keyless
entry pouch and blinks open. The moment I get into the car, a voice greets me
in, another tells me what my fuel levels, tyre pressures are, a beeper reminds
me to sync my Bluetooth to the car audio’s, a voice warns me my seat belts are
not done, yet another announces that the GPS signals are low and the parking
sensor reads out the distance between my car and the one parked in front. Even
the Cessna we flew at the flying club did not have so many issues to comprehend
with . . . .
Complicating simple stuff seems
to be the motto of the current era. Value addition today, comes at the cost of
the Core Value system in itself.
Take Mailing for starters,
especially sending out an e-mail from a smartphone. Opt to send out a mail and there
pops a list of mail accounts, pick one and the next is a question on plain text
or html, answer that and the query regarding attachments needs to be
negotiated, and once you think you can now focus on typing the message, you
have to make a decision on the input option - QWERTY sliding board, On screen
QWERTY and further a single click typing or a SWYPE slide option . . . phew,
not sure if my wife can come up with so many questions . . . .
This seems to rub off on
everything else as well. Take your car for an example. I remember our family’s
monster Dodge, half the size of a truck, with complete 7 mm hard steel shell,
weighing over a ton. It had just one simple key hole to start the car, shift
those gears and off you go. Today, when I near my car, it senses my keyless
entry pouch and blinks open. The moment I get into the car, a voice greets me
in, another tells me what my fuel levels, tyre pressures are, a beeper reminds
me to sync my Bluetooth to the car audio’s, a voice warns me my seat belts are
not done, yet another announces that the GPS signals are low and the parking
sensor reads out the distance between my car and the one parked in front. Even
the Cessna we flew at the flying club did not have so many issues to comprehend
with . . . .
Life would be just so wonderful
if we could keep it simple and not overly complicate things, but alas, it isn't
our way. Just to look at the number of different types, flavors, sizes, shapes,
and features of toothpaste alone. There are those that kill germs, those that
cement gums, venture between and inside cavities to ward off the evil forces,
sets up a perfume factory inside your mouth to keep it smelling nice for hours.
Then there are the domain experts – for kissing, for helping you eat ice creams
etc. . .
If that was not enough, take the
current version of the English language in use, and no, I am not even talking
about the SMS language in vogue (which I will save for a whole blog). I am
referring to the long list of adjectives, euphemisms and all other decorative
forms in words being thrown around, which otherwise can be communicated in a
few words. Read the paragraph below...
and try to understand the meaning.
'Two individuals proceeded
towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their
expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a
large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified.’
'One member of the team
precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion
of his anatomical structure; subsequently, the second member of the team
performed self-rotational translation, orientated in the same direction taken
by the first team member.'
ANY GUESSES WHAT IT IS ALL
ABOUT??? It is the description of the great nursery rhyme . . . . “Jack and
Jill, went up the hill to fetch a pail of water . . . . . “
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Asprin,
Anyone ??
