Hypotheticals

This has been a week of technical awareness for me. My phone died on the weekend, taking with it my camera, diary and address book.

My home internet connection has also been in-and-out of service, leaving me without e-mail, internet (things I actually use for work and pleasure) and a home phone (being a VOIP junkee).

This left me wandering the streets with one light pocket (having no phone in it) and relatively disconnected from society. Society was no-doubt glad, though it made my job, and my life, a little trickier than normal.

Which raises the question, which is better; to have multiple objects providing a single service or a single object providing multiple services?

I am starting to favour the former, as it encourages diversity and new ideas, which (in this age of gentrification) can only be a good thing.

Granted, it may leave one looking like Mark Hamill in 'Star Wars: A New Hope', when he was dashing around the Death Star with that ridiculous belt of gadgets on, or it may lead to us downsizing or specialising.

This can only be a good thing, as anyone that has used Virgin Mobile, Virgin Airlines etc can attest. Personally, Id much rather Richard Branson brought his passion for airlines and hot-air ballooning togethor and re-introduced the Zeppelin as a mode of transport.