Comment by corford
2 years ago
I read it more as "losing knowledge of why things are the way they are today" i.e. the earlier technical context & nuance that caused things to evolve in the way they have.
Nice example from a link in this thread is a Dr. Mill's talk at udel: https://youtu.be/08jBmCvxkv4?feature=shared It's packed with interesting context and history stretching back to 1968
You are correct, that's what I meant. Understanding the why allows us to evolve ina. direction ina. way that's educated instead of making bad decisions and committing mistakes that shouldn't have been made