Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies
Asbestos encapsulates a problem with society at large.  We, unfortunately, are simply too binary in our thinking "Oh, asbestos causes cancer?  We better purge it from everything everywhere".<p>The context of when and why (and to who) asbestos causes cancer is simply ignored.<p>This sort of problem exists everywhere.  If something bad happens or is caused by something (politics, economics, etc) we are simply too quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater.<p>From a tech standpoint, I see this a lot.  Postgres at my current company got banned because one team one time had a bad experience with it (after they misused it).