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."'"

What's the rush?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's like saying WindowsMobile will trump the iPhone.

If.

[buswolley]

If this post is not good enough now...It will be tomorrow.

Great economics

[Hangeron]

It's good for the economy to produce stuff that people have to replace regularly. We should produce crap that breaks every few months. That would really boost consumerism and spin up the economy. But what we really need are cheap and simple replacement societies. When a world police like the US bombs another country and takes their resources, they can just slap in a modern, cheap and simple solution. Benefit for all.

Value For Money

[Strangeface]

If you think something fulfills your needs at a reasonable price, then it's good enough. If it's a little better, it's just good value for money. Isn't this simple, and a really old observation? All the examples provide value for money. And as someone has pointed out earlier, it's all intrinsically linked to affordability. Why is Wired getting so desperate these days?

Re:wrong

[iwein]

Well, if it isn't the leader of the weiner patrol, boning up on his nerd lessons