Junk nostalgia and the unsafe projects it can spawn

1,678 views · Published 20 May 2018 · 11:02 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: Amateur Radio VK3YE · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Nostalgia can be pleasant, engaging and sociable.  That's its good form.  But there's also junk nostalgia.  Junk nostalgia may be more imagined than real.  Its practical manifestations can be unsafe.  And it's spreading - magazines are publishing material in 2018 that they wouldn't have printed in 1988 or 1958.  

In this video I make the case against building stupidly unsafe projects in the name of currently fashionable junk nostalgia.  Just because a project is of the past doesn't mean that you should be - at least not yet!

Typo. 'Incompete' should of course read 'incomplete'.

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