Too Simple To Figure Out Dept...!?!
The more smart or automatic an appliance becomes the more time and money you'll spend trying to make it work. Net result: You lose time and you lose a ton of money. Great for technician's income...
Forum Discussion
fj12ryder wrote:
Heck, maybe we could get rid of all these pesky transistors and go back to vacuum tubes while we're getting rid of all this high tech unneeded stuff.
I spent the bulk of my career live-testing large rocket engines and pre-shipment testing of raw transistors and integrated circuits.
Guess what ... chemistry based stuff and electricity based stuff does indeed fail. The more of those type things we have around us, statistically the more often are we going to experience the consequences when they fail.
K.I.S.S. is about erring on the low side when it comes to the quantity and/or complexity of the man-made stuff in our lives.
