In technology, it seems to be the case that once some fact is old enough to be known as gospel, the world will have moved on enough that it's not true anymore.

In technology, it seems to be the case that once some fact is old enough to be known as gospel, the world will have moved on enough that it's not true anymore. And when challenged by the new norm, the old guard repeat their gospel louder and in greater numbers! So if you hear some technological rule of thumb repeated often enough, you should doubt it even more than if you hadn't heard it at all.