Another class of simple things in function but not constructed: cell phone and birth control pill
(fundamentally changes the structure of society)
Tea pot problem: if its filled with hot water and ask why is the water hot? One answer is because of the kinetic energy etc./ Because it was sitting on a stove with a flame/ I wanted hot water with tea/ It is part of our plan for the universe
-Complexity is highly evolved and simplicity is not answered
Complexity is a system that interact with each other and dissipate energy Ex: chemical reaction in cells given at any moment
Ex of a particular kind: internet (binary number)-simplest possible way of representing numbers. Light switch uses binary-and physicists made the transistor to make it easier
Extraordinary simple idea requires layers of complexity in order to make it reliable.
-Simple things: behavior is predictable (know what it is going to do); cheap; high performance/ value or cost; serve and have potential to be building blocks
-Took technology that is available everywhere, made it cheap to be used in places of need
-If you take too much out of something simple it looses its function; when you have nothing to take away, that is when you have simplicity.
Second video:
-good visually tools are important
-want to predict one part of a system, it becomes more complicated
-the more you step back, the better chance you have of finding simple answers
-complex problems may not be complicated: simple answers may emerge
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