Reading Response 9&10

Response (#9)
Chapter 9 Maeda talks of failure and the fact that not everything can be simplistic. There are not always the capabilities of simplification; some facets of life have to maintain a complexity about them. He states that sometimes it is better to realize simplicity is going to be a failure from the start and not to waste your time trying to reach an insurmountable level of simplicity. Life is complicated and no matter how hard we try to simplify it some aspects are meant to be complicated.

Response (#10)
Media closes the idea of simplicity in the tenth chapter, which he refers to as “the law”. The law he describes is made up of three keys; key 1=away, key 2= open, and key 3=power. He talks about how an open network like API Google and Amazon use are easier for users to fix on their own however most won’t be able to because of the complexity. He also talks about how more is less if you simply move it far away, like a remote server. The final key he talked about was the key of power, which is something technology is tied to currently. But in the future technology might not be restricted to a valuable power source batteries may last up to a decade on a single charge. Currently technology is becoming more and more open with wireless laptops and smart phones. However simplicity in the future lies in the ability to create better efficiency of resources. The most important idea Maeda covered was to, “Subtract the obvious and add the meaningful.”