Marketing is a life blood for Engineers. We need them to explain what the customer wants and needs. But Marketing can let this power get to their heads.
What did our technology today look like from yesterday’s point of view? Was it even close to what actually happen? Suffice to say, predicting the future is way too hard!
The story of how the AT&T automatic time-teller system was decommissioned after many many years of service. A bitter sweet “good bye” should have been planned when the system was first deployed.
