> every single new product category in tech always, no exceptions, insists on learning nothing from history,
I've worked in a bunch of industries and places over the years, and this is not just a tech thing. Like, there's a reason that saving a day in the library with a week in the lab is a pretty famous saying.
Nice saying. Another one I just remembered is "We don't have enough money to do it right, but we have enough to do it twice."
Reminds me of the time a former employer which shall remain nameless paid a Senior Developer to spend an entire year coding something a $15,000 license from the maintainers of the original library would have given them. So lets spend 6 figures to save 15 grand or whatever.
This was a CTO burning funds, and that does not even cover the maintenance costs, especially as the original library changes and becomes drastically more modern.
I just used this a few weeks ago, except it was time not money. And I'm on my fourth implementation because nobody wants to stop and actually have a plan.
what if kings attacking and burning down libraries of advanced civilizations (Nalanda, Alexandria) is a way for humans to reset the world's knowledge, because we got bored of our achievements and want to start from scratch ?