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{{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. | {{A|g| | ||
[[File:Transfagarasan.png|450px|thumb|center|A [[metaphor]] for immutable progress of civilisation, yesterday.]] | |||
''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 Platonic ideal, and any imperfection in our current locale is simply a reflection that, however far we have come, we are not there yet. We are but hobbits, on the way to Mt. Doom. | 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 Platonic ideal, and any imperfection in our current locale is simply a reflection that, however far we have come, we are not there yet. We are but hobbits, on the way to Mt. Doom. | ||