Proust Lives: Remembrance of Time Past

'Probably noticed this before in these Notes from The Cube, but since this entry is about, in the immortal words of Yogi Berra, deja vu all over again, why not repeat myself ?. . .

'Looked at the new year analysis and forecast from the high tech group. An impressive 10-pager. Many observations, some salient points - certainly some hard-nosed-but-optimistic forecasts on how the industry will evolve.

And the wording is lifted, almost line-for-line, from the high tech group's annual forecast/analysis of two years ago.

Which was copied, almost line-for-line, from the forecast/analysis from five years ago.

Curiosity tweaked, I looked at last year's forecast/analysis: it was a cut-and-past job from the doc two years before it - and two years before that, there was a . . . .

For those of us plodding along with our yearly struggles to review the situation and provide new insights on our areas of expertise, there is a lesson here: recycling. Apparently The Cube's adage "If you write it, no one will read it" holds true on the strategic level.

And who foolishly said that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it? What's the "doom"? Have you seen the increasing budget allocations for the high-tech group?