>It's why people look at inscriptions in old books, why they keep photo albums, why finding a forgotten item when moving furniture can be delightful. It's why w

>It's why people look at inscriptions in old books, why they keep photo albums, why finding a forgotten item when moving furniture can be delightful. It's why we're able to identify trends. I think it's often the opposite. Drawing confusing or bad analogies to the past rests on the false assumption that the future resembles the past, and the reason people love old photo albums or forgotten items is usually a kind of nostalgia, not because they hold relevance towards the future. This is also why forgetting or deliberately wiping the slate clean is fundamentally a good thing, it forces people to rebuild things from first principles without being bogged down in false assumptions carried over from the past, it's why the people who build new things tend to be young rather than old. If past information was so valuable in determining the future most visionaries would be 60. Hanging on to old information is a form of digital hoarding.