In general the 90s are an oddly forgotten decade. The internet and dotcom booms were so exciting and sucked so much attention, nobody remembers anything else that happened, and sometimes people go around rediscovering 90s things. The 80s are rememembered much more accurately.
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And all this is why the 80s were the best decade and it’s all downhill from here.
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Peak Industrial era was marked by peak GE - brought this recent piece to mind - https://qz.com/work/1635960/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma/ …
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Heh I spent years avoiding the six sigma secret police at Xerox Had to get the basic yellow belt but I refused to do the green belt? which was optional but with heavy pressure from the cult to do it
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I’m sure there’s a name for this effect, how the last of a line of tech is seen as “perfect” IMHO it’s just “better”, and it’s nostalgia providing the “perfection”. Key examples: Concorde, space shuttle.
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Arguably this is happening right now with internal combustion engines. My car-mad boss is over the moon with his new hybrid SUV.
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