Got stories about why a technology succeeded/failed?

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When I'm reading about new technologies, I run into older technologies that succeeded or failed. Then I read about the context at the time.Anyone have/looked into stories like that? An example would be reading about the history of relational databases, and how they replaced hierarchical databases. Then a resurgence of path-dependent access like in hierarchical databases in XML documents.

verdverm · Accepted Answer

We are thinking about configuration, and how we are at a point where things have reached a limit, something different is needed, and how today's solutions will all be replaced (except for the one)You can read more about our thoughts here: https://hofstadter.io/blog/2020/04/22/what-was-and-what-shal...