Sure. But, aspirin would never have been allowed past the current FDA, and neither would ibuprofen. The airplane would have been grounded by the current product safety commission, as would the car. Plastics tend to produce so many byproducts that the EPA would have banned all production of it. And electricity? Can you imagine a new coal-fired plant being built other than by overriding the EPA?
The point is that all of these products were invented between 1850 and 1920. Every one of these products is key to the world as we know it. And, all of them would have been killed in infancy had they been invented today. What does that say about our current culture and its risk/reward analysis?
My criteria for good software:
- Does it work?
- Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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