Don't ask the experts,

...Because they're what's wrong with the situation.

I've been developing a new philosophy over the past few weeks... The nutshell description is that our world has taken the specialization of labor so far it has led to a great deal of dysfunction, which is meerly taken as "the way things are" rather than being seen as a problem.

Experts have no incentive, and in fact disinsentive, to making their work usable to the masses. This leads to a bunch of disparate groups in their ivory towers trying to build them ever higher. And while these advances are not bad things (and are even found to be marketable to "the masses" from time to time), the tools they use should be simple enough for everyone to pick up... or at the very least, they should not throw away the old tools that were simple enough for everyone to use...

An example of this would be how the auto industry integrated computers into every system, creating the situation where while thirty years ago, a hobbiest might be able to repair/maintain/and perhaps modify their car, that would be impossible today (in part due to the cost assosciated with specialized equipment such as OBD scanners and things)

This leads me to wonder as well if a durable, easy to repair, simple to understand car would sell well today? Merely because it gives people the option to empower themselves and take control of the device.

But I digress.

-Evan