When any new form comes into the foreground of things, we naturally look at it through the old stereos. We can’t help that. This is normal…We’re just trying to fit the old things into the new form, instead of asking what is the new form going to do to all the assumptions we had before.
In our opinion, the two approaches – growth and value – are joined at the hip. Growth is always a component in the calculation of value, constituting a variable whose importance can range from negligible to enormous and whose impact can be negative as well as positive.
The total complexity of a system is a constant. If you make a user’s interaction with a system simpler, the complexity behind the scenes increases. With technology, simplifications at the level of usage invariably result in added complexity of the underlying mechanism.