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	{{A\|g\|''The [[JC]]'s very own coinages {{tm}}''</~~ref~~>}}The fallacy of judging obsolete tricks, technologies or ideologies by the standards of the prevailing orthodoxy — evaluation criteria that, [[Q.E.D.]], weren’t relevant when the old technologies were in fashion.		{{A\|g\|''The [[JC]]'s very own coinages {{tm}}''</br>}}The fallacy of judging obsolete tricks, technologies or ideologies by the standards of the prevailing orthodoxy — evaluation criteria that, [[Q.E.D.]], weren’t relevant when the old technologies were in fashion.

	Judged by such an arbitrary standard, outmoded technologies will, the older they get, necessarily seem more and more primitive and useless - the history of design will seem to lead inexorably to right here, right now. This in turn will create the impression, not easily dispelled, that human progress has been slow, steady, relentless march towards a perfect ideal, and our current place is simply the closest we have yet got.		Judged by such an arbitrary standard, outmoded technologies will, the older they get, necessarily seem more and more primitive and useless - the history of design will seem to lead inexorably to right here, right now. This in turn will create the impression, not easily dispelled, that human progress has been slow, steady, relentless march towards a perfect ideal, and our current place is simply the closest we have yet got.