[extropy-chat] history lessons

[Adrian Tymes]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I had an idea.  They say that those who do not learn
> from history are destined to repeat it.  So let's
> forbid
> schools from teaching the history of the 1990s. 
> That
> was a cool decade.  The commies went outta business,
> the internet came along, stocks went crazy, a lot of
> 
> stuff went right.  
> 
> No, wait better idea.  Let us emphasize
> technological
> and scientific history only, so that way we move
> forward
> while groundhog-daying the 90s over and over.

Check the stocks for things biotech and "nano"tech
related.  Why do we need to ban teaching history, when
people so willingly blind themselves to it?

-or-

Sure, they may repeat it.  Personally, I'd like to
improve on it.  How about a dot-com-like boom where
the "crash" isn't an actual lowering of stock prices,
but merely a sudden lack of growth?  Holding steady,
with many fortunes made and few or none lost, to fuel
the next boom.  (For instance, if a lot more of the
rank and file - including engineers - wound up being
dotcom millionaires, instead of seeing their fortunes
slip away before they could cash out, how easy would
it be to get funding for some
not-immediately-profitable >H projects today?)