Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simplicity has a purpose, and complexity - “hackability” is just a form of complexity - has costs. The story of technology over the course of the past 20 years is the expansion of one at the expense of another. It’s been more than a fair trade, despite detours and disasters and greed and stupidity.
An Entirely Other Day: Making the Future