On a mountain road, somewhere between Siborong and Padangsidimpuan on Sumatra in Indonesia, Albert, Lore and I, stopped at a family restaurant, where travelers could get some necessity – food and gasoline on bottles.
Nobody spoke English, but with a wonderful help from a sophisticated technology, we managed to communicate with the restaurant owners and their friends. This is where simplicity met technology.
Who says that we have to have standards for everything in order to make a wonderful meal? Who says that we have to have washing machines to make our cloths clean? This simple but efficient restaurant had probably the most clean bathroom of all places we have been to on our way – a creek with clean water.
People here probably don’t know the word “demand” and would probably not survive one day in the complex world that we live in.