It makes more sense if you realize that for a good lot of tech, the goal was not to create a better tech. Even if they happen to say so. It's just people wantin

It makes more sense if you realize that for a good lot of tech, the goal was not to create a better tech. Even if they happen to say so. It's just people wanting to go ahead, to do their own thing, to make money, be famous, be the one that created a thing. Learning from the past is orthogonal to these goals.