http://www.ted.com The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics. TEDTalks...
========== On simplicity. What a great way to start.First of all, I've been watching this trendwhere we have these books like such and such "For Dummies."Do you know these books, these such and such "For Dummies?"My daughters pointed out that I'm very similar looking, so this is a bit of a problem.(Laughter)But I was looking online at Amazon.com for other books like this.You know, there's also something called the "Complete Idiot's Guide?"There's a sort of business model around being stupid in some sense.We like to have technology make us feel bad, for some strange reason.But I really like that, so I wrote a book called "The Laws of Simplicity."I was in Milan last week, ...
