"Hindsight fallacy" seems almost universal. Jerry and I will someday soon be presenting a series of coffee experiments. I told my college roommate one of them, and he said "isn't that the result you'd expect?"
Everyone can say that after the fact. Everyone DOES say that after the fact. It's just barely possible to forget that you know the result and put yourself in the mind of people who don't. I always ask "what things are YOU doing now that will look ridiculous in 40 years?"
In my book I used the novel approach to the Xerox Star, mainly so that the characters would not know how it turns out. I had to be judicious in how I treated Unix, C, and AI, since we really did talk about them back then, but no winking at the reader is allowed.
Everyone can say that after the fact. Everyone DOES say that after the fact. It's just barely possible to forget that you know the result and put yourself in the mind of people who don't. I always ask "what things are YOU doing now that will look ridiculous in 40 years?"
In my book I used the novel approach to the Xerox Star, mainly so that the characters would not know how it turns out. I had to be judicious in how I treated Unix, C, and AI, since we really did talk about them back then, but no winking at the reader is allowed.