Article: Why is everybody so busy?
I might still be classifed as a young man, but even I can see the rapid change in styling of the World and how our lives revolve around it. A familiar phrase you mid 20’s may have heard as a child “I’m not taking homework provided on printout paper from a computer”. To me this phrase then was not a good thing to hear, it was a result of people too fixed in their ways, unable to think in new ways, or able to comprehend the use that computers could be for different types of people; for instance I myself was dyslexic, and found it much easier to use computers, now I have a verified wpm of 130 and am very happy with it , as well as my grammar, and the ease of use I have when I need to know something (wikipedia, google, dictionaries, etc) it’s all there.
Now, people are so busy, even those without computers are extremely busy. A familiar phrase from older generations would have to be “kids have too many choices these days , when I was a boy…”, which demonstrates thie phenomenan to a tip of perfection, and I hope, validates my point, that clearly there must be some sort of balance between opportunity and execution. Infact thats (ironically) exactly how the faster cryptanalytic time memory trade off works (here). This essentially is taking pre-calculated data and using it in a lookup table (memory) in combination with the usual algorithm, the access is faster, but there is a tradeoff (for every force there must be an equal and opposite force), much like in modern society.
The parallel exists, I’m sure of it i.e. there is a direct proportionality between N opportunities and N executions (acceptances). I.e. there is a great need for balance.
In a sense, technology has given us too many opportunities, and ways of doing things, its unlikely that a balanced path is pathed out. Much like how I felt people were wrong surpressing the use of computers, people would be just as wrong to insist the presence of computers was essential, which is an interesting suggestion from a Technical Director, whos job depends on Comp Sci. However consider it, and what is lost by using computers, just as much as what is gained. System analysis freaks will know exactly what im talking about! 
(It is just as bad to overcomplexify a system (or a design for that matter) , as it is to oversimplify).
Most truly amazing genius’ I’ve seen were from people to combine, what could be considered, ancient simplicity, with, technological complexity. Most designs that qualify for both and bring a balance, become netural forces in our lifes. These neutral forces become tools that are harder to exploit, and although I could go on about the history of exploitation and hacking , that is being saved for another article. Harder to exploit you say? Ok azio, you’ve really lost it this time.
When I say exploit it doesnt necesarily mean hack or abuse, it simply means , “be used for means other than the sole intention of the device”. One could infact argue that a combination between such ancient and modern techniques could greater widen the orifice to which exploits exist in, greater efficiency, etc.
Maybe people are not ready yet, to realise the balance between the society they created, and the society they left behind, as I am sure history proves itself, this is not the first revolution, or balance conundrum to rise on our tide of existance, I hope though that a few enlightened people may come to realise, that there should always be a balance between technology (or complex systems), and non-technology (or simplified systems).
