I wish there was a way to include "What could have been" or "What could be" into the "What is" of an "education" in Computer Science. Distributed Systems, Data

I wish there was a way to include "What could have been" or "What could be" into the "What is" of an "education" in Computer Science. Distributed Systems, Databases, Networking and Architecture all have a past with much better solutions that were never adopted because of patents, cost, or some such other that grow fainter with every coming day. If courses like these cosnsited of "History" in parallel I think I'd be a more well-rounded graduate.