Welcome to The Next Step The Next Step is the Web home of our broadcast television news reports about emerging technology. Our Nextipedia is a forum for building a practical consensus on what the near future holds for us all. http://nextstep.com/index.php 2010-08-02T00:20:51Z Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management Next Step Reports 2008-02-22T02:35:56Z 2008-02-22T02:35:56Z http://nextstep.com/index.php/component/content/article/26-rotate-news Richard Hart rich@newmaterial.com {loadposition rotator} {loadposition rotator} Good Enough 2008-06-12T07:38:58Z 2008-06-12T07:38:58Z http://nextstep.com/index.php/commentary/opinion-column/59-goodenough Richard Hart rich@newmaterial.com <a href="http://nextstep.com/index.php/commentary/opinion-column/8-column/59-goodenough"><div class="figure-right"> <img alt="alt" title="Title" src="http://nextstep.com/images/stories/news/motorcycle.jpg"/> <br/></a>What's wrong with this picture? If you don't notice,<br/>you are a member of the Good Enough Generation. </div><h4><div style="float:right; padding-left:12px;">{sharethis}</div></h4><p><strong>It’s a thoroughly modern irony.</strong></p><p>As technology delivers ever-sharper pictures and sound, you and I settle for audio and video that's just good enough. Say what you want about all your digital media players, but our parents were more demanding consumers of media than we are. </p><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_listen.gif" alt="" />{play}av/pod/nxtp-good_enough.mp3{/play}<a href="http://216.55.163.4/index.php?view=article&catid=8%3Acolumn&id=17%3Aplug-incars&option=com_content&Itemid=12"><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_read.gif" alt="" /></a><a href="http://nextstep.com/feed://nextstep.com/av/pod/nxtp_feed.xml" target="_blank"><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_download.gif" alt="" /></a><a href="http://216.55.163.4/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=35"><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_subscribe.gif" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://nextstep.com/index.php/commentary/opinion-column/8-column/59-goodenough"><div class="figure-right"> <img alt="alt" title="Title" src="http://nextstep.com/images/stories/news/motorcycle.jpg"/> <br/></a>What's wrong with this picture? If you don't notice,<br/>you are a member of the Good Enough Generation. </div><h4><div style="float:right; padding-left:12px;">{sharethis}</div></h4><p><strong>It’s a thoroughly modern irony.</strong></p><p>As technology delivers ever-sharper pictures and sound, you and I settle for audio and video that's just good enough. Say what you want about all your digital media players, but our parents were more demanding consumers of media than we are. </p><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_listen.gif" alt="" />{play}av/pod/nxtp-good_enough.mp3{/play}<a href="http://216.55.163.4/index.php?view=article&catid=8%3Acolumn&id=17%3Aplug-incars&option=com_content&Itemid=12"><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_read.gif" alt="" /></a><a href="http://nextstep.com/feed://nextstep.com/av/pod/nxtp_feed.xml" target="_blank"><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_download.gif" alt="" /></a><a href="http://216.55.163.4/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=35"><img vertical-align="middle" src="http://nextstep.com/images/nxtp/rss_subscribe.gif" alt="" /></a>