"Not learning from history because the present is the present" is a pretty accurate description of the world in 2026, at least.

You are not going to stop people from reading into history, ever. If anything, people need to learn more about what happened in the past.

We have yet to invent ground breaking tech that transcends either human nature or the banal depravity that stems from the profit motive at scale. Prior history of major tech innovations therefore may have some insight to offer regarding expected outcomes of the current hype wave around AI. The notion that technology so cleanly breaks from underlying social paradigms as to be wholly unpredictable is one of the tech industries most persistently naive and destructive mythologies.