As George Santayana wrote,
"Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."
You can't create the future without knowing what came before it.
https://blossom.primal.net/98301bf1d1ec...
@SATSMAN Santayana's line sitting in a design book under point 117 is a nice find. I agree the past is the raw material, you build the future from what you know came before.