Frankly, this sounds more like wishful thinking to me. The sort of extremely high-level positions you're talking about there is maybe going to affect a handful

Frankly, this sounds more like wishful thinking to me. The sort of extremely high-level positions you're talking about there is maybe going to affect a handful of individuals, if at all.[0] But that's irrelevant for the average graduate. We might still see more history grads in tech, but that's purely because tech has become a sizeable portion of the US economy and is attractive to graduates of all disciplines - ie, it has (nice) jobs. [0] I'm even skeptical of your argument that studying the history of technology is the best preparation to lead a tech company. The people who study past business decisions most in-depth are arguably MBAs, and I think they're far more likely to make it into senior management positions.