History is what people don’t study this days and i think is the best way to make predictions about the future. We tend to repeat our mistakes over and over just because we tend to forget what happen in the past, without noticing that we are losing our own perception of the future.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. -George Orwel
I noticed a behavior from a friend, she likes to read about the author past while reading one of his/her novels/poems (My friend is into Literature). The best way to learn about the author intention on any subject is locating our selfs in the exact place the author was and that we can just do it through his/her history. I thought that probably i can learn new things about what’s happening now in computer science if i do the same with good programmers. Maybe even do my own predictions for the future :). I’m planning to take at least 10 to 20 minutes of my day to read an article of any good craftsman in computer sciences. Probably i will not get wisdom right away from that activity but i know that i will get inspiration.