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...

2 comments:

Peeyush said...

Is the label 'philosophy' really needed on any of your posts :D

Mishra-ji said...

did i set it up really?