To a large extent, this is of course owing to exactly the experimental nature of transitions and, more generally, of the governance of complex problems: ambiguity about who the relevant actors are is part of what makes things complex.
That would make things complex.
Where are we making things overly complex?
The problem is that technology has an irritating way of making things more complex at the same time as making them simpler.
Without making things too complex, let's look at the exhibit "The Full-Growth MRI". Nine of the 80 cells (the ones shaded black or dark gray) exhibit "exceptional" or "great" growth performance.
I think simplification is key but I worry that companies dedicated to making things as complex as possible – Dell, Sony, and HP come to mind – won't know how to strip down their tablet offerings once Apple shows them how to do it right.
Making things that much more complex, a Sprint version of the mysterious P121 has just popped up in their inventory system, going as the P120.
But then a familiar anxiety seems to take over, as if the filmmakers suddenly became aware of the danger of making things too subtle and psychologically complex.
mathiashahn.com Like many designers today, Tetsuo Mukai equates making things with telling stories, "communicating complex ideas through something physical," says the 37-year-old co-founder, along with his wife, Bernadette Deddens, 35, of Study O Portable.
Once more: it's great to start from the precept of "challenge preconceptions", but at some point you have to accept when you're making things more rather than less complex, worse rather than better.
