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by makeitdouble 299 days ago
> A great historical analogies are the adoption of PCs in the 80s

Another historical analogy is Scientific Management, pushed top down and widely adopted by the industry. It has many flavors and all of them were wrong.

We have samples in basically any direction one would like to argue for. Historical precedence isn't a good argument IMHO.