Trying to find src of 'a product is perfected just before it becomes obsolete'. Got it from but smells like there's more provenance?
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This is like "the lost article is always in the last place you look": survivor bias in action
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Of course it seems like clipper ships were "perfected" wood-and-wind technology; that's just where we stopped because of steam
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not really, but this convo happened last night too, so I don't want to repeat. There's a difference.
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Granted there is a point there.
"If it works perfectly, you don't call it 'technology'."

