I’m glad that there is technical innovation private or public, and eventual obscelence is inevitable. However, for vital things like pacemakers and body implants that when they stop working are effectively a blinding punch to the eye.

At the point where a version of tech is about to go out of support, I think this tech needs to be publicized and open-sourced (i.e. blueprints, technical drawings, softwares, code), to allow for potential self-support. Easier said than done but it should be criminal to destroy/sell off such humanitarian progress to oblivion.