> There was no need to invent new technology in 2002 and definitely not in 2024.
Sure we have had roads for hundreds of years but they're not the same ones we have today, even though it's the same concept and function.
You can't just take advantage of the technology we have today and at the same time refuse to acknowledge it and hand-wavingly claim it was just the same in '02. It's easy to say so about anything if we're going to conveniently gloss over the details.
Believe it or not, many technologies that changed the world and we depend on today actually have origin stories similar to the one shared in the article. Many of them started as custom internal tools that I imagine you would've been similarly critical towards them for trying to invent new technology needlessly.
Sure we have had roads for hundreds of years but they're not the same ones we have today, even though it's the same concept and function.
You can't just take advantage of the technology we have today and at the same time refuse to acknowledge it and hand-wavingly claim it was just the same in '02. It's easy to say so about anything if we're going to conveniently gloss over the details.
Believe it or not, many technologies that changed the world and we depend on today actually have origin stories similar to the one shared in the article. Many of them started as custom internal tools that I imagine you would've been similarly critical towards them for trying to invent new technology needlessly.