Tuesday, October 14, 2008

May be we don't need to stir so much!

As I decided to leave the sugar at the bottom of the cup or glass of the tea-cup, for the sugar to mix with water at the speed of natural convection process, may be! Or, at least that was the thought behind.. And, the higher abstraction is - let's leave things unstirred a bit for the abundance of movement around us... It's only later that my wanting-to-be touchy tongue realizes it made a difference or even if it was just supposed to make one!

Somewhere humans got the trigger from frothy water-load cascading downhills and falls and thought of translating that into the movement on the road, in the sky.. not to speak of the humans jumping off the cliff in norway for allowing the thrill of those water-streams seep into their inner souls or so they'd say... and, then came along the invention of wheels rolling on the roads.. gets me to extremeties of thoughts of the things around not being meant for moving so much!

In these ever-so-moving thoughts, I'd like to rest them (my thoughts!) and get them akin to the genuineness of only subtle motions resembling the profundity that nature exhibits - despite the movement around..! Much less, the lunar circles, or the cycles of sun.. and the placid lake placid enough to tell us that its reclusive peace was disturbed by the smallest wafts of the wind blowing atop its layers..!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Customization is the way to go but not for everyone!

It wasn't really the freshness of air dishing out these thoughts... could be the knot at my neck behind the regurgitations! As I stood around a neatly groomed roundabout in Bracknell (should be another suburb around London) seeing the careful-yet-always-so-desperate drivers yielding for the rounding-about cars, the thought of value of customization crosses my mind...

UK may be (I am less travelled than "well-travelled") going the roundabout way and I have (well, we all have) noticed USA and most countries following the lights at the cross-roads... So, how do roundabouts relate to customized systems? Well, they give the drivers the freedom to judge the relative-right-of-way. The fact that one has been allowed to drive on the road, it seems pretty normal to get accorded with that right-of-way to judge the things.. don't we judge the distance (of the car trailing us), the speed of other cars..? So, why not here? Red/amber/green lights, on the other hand, work as fixed instructions and may be optimized as per traffic only to an extent.

So, what am I emphasizing here? Two facts - customized world should definitely be the more efficient than standard-driven world, and another, that the former is not for all... As we bring in the freedom of customization(s), we also assume the users/consumers to be judicious to handle the onus of responsibilities that come automatically with customized world...