Technologists are well marinated in the cultural broth of change. We love, anticipate, applaud, and judge the next version. We even have a ritualized practice of naming these epochs (cf. “Cranky Crocodile,” “Irritated Orangutan,” or “Chocolate Chewbacca”) and cataloging them as minor shifts (version 3.0.14 to 3.0.15) and major ones (Device 10, OS 2025).

One might say that we...