Simplicity and Complexity

Watched a video on Ted.com yesterday where George Whitesides talked about simplicity and complexity.  I liked the idea that we tolerate complexity, but yearn for simplicity.

Is this simple or complex?

Oblivious

As I walked to work this morning, I looked up.  I wondered what the people on the plane might be doing… sleeping, eating, reading, computing, etc.  It occurred to me that apart from the small glimpse available from each window, a glimpse so far away from earth as to be almost irrelevant, they were almost completely oblivious to world in which they live.