...and more is less, and less is more.
My first experience with the internet or the world wide web (is that where www comes from?) wasn't on Chrome or Internet Explorer. It wasn't even on Firefox or it's predecessor, Netscape Navigator.
It was on a text only "web" browser known as Lynx. No images, or image carousels. No videos, no animations or audio playing in the background.
Just text and the content you wanted to read.
It wouldn't take long before web pages were cluttered by images - static, then animated; and then forever tainted by the concept of a web site visits counter.
We have been nearing the end of a cycle where we have been forced to consider what's really vital. We've long believed that new is better, and more is best.
However, the best thing of having many things taken away from us, is finding out what we really need, and finding out that much of what we thought we needed, we really didn't.
Having too much, made us reactionary. We consumed, and kept busy, thinking that was the route to satisfaction and happiness. Having less, made it clearer that fewer deeper connections and experiences were more important, than too many shallow ones.
New isn't always better. Sometimes new can be too cluttered, not just in its execution, but in its ambition. Rather than making complex attempts to create new applications or platforms to connect people and share information, a simpler ambition may be a better approach. We need to learn and re-learn how to share ideas again.
And even being able to have a simple page, to share your thoughts - no flashy layouts, or images, or pixel trackers, or recommendations; is a reset back a core idea.
Out with the new, in with the old.
My first experience with the internet or the world wide web (is that where www comes from?) wasn't on Chrome or Internet Explorer. It wasn't even on Firefox or it's predecessor, Netscape Navigator.
It was on a text only "web" browser known as Lynx. No images, or image carousels. No videos, no animations or audio playing in the background.
Just text and the content you wanted to read.
It wouldn't take long before web pages were cluttered by images - static, then animated; and then forever tainted by the concept of a web site visits counter.
We have been nearing the end of a cycle where we have been forced to consider what's really vital. We've long believed that new is better, and more is best.
However, the best thing of having many things taken away from us, is finding out what we really need, and finding out that much of what we thought we needed, we really didn't.
Having too much, made us reactionary. We consumed, and kept busy, thinking that was the route to satisfaction and happiness. Having less, made it clearer that fewer deeper connections and experiences were more important, than too many shallow ones.
New isn't always better. Sometimes new can be too cluttered, not just in its execution, but in its ambition. Rather than making complex attempts to create new applications or platforms to connect people and share information, a simpler ambition may be a better approach. We need to learn and re-learn how to share ideas again.
And even being able to have a simple page, to share your thoughts - no flashy layouts, or images, or pixel trackers, or recommendations; is a reset back a core idea.
Out with the new, in with the old.