Future-proof technology is that which is very likely to stay functional for a very long time with minimal to no maintenance, even assuming significant changes in the state of technology and society as a whole. In a world of complex, ever-changing technology, such as that of computers, this feature is generally not easy to achieve, but today's consumerist society makes it all yet much worse by focusing on immediate profit without long-term planning and by actually aiming to MITIGATE long-lasting technology via planned obsolescence, by introducing bloat, intentional complexity and obscurity, incompetent developers, unnecessary dependencies, and update culture. With a good approach, such as the one we are advocating, future-proof technology is absolutely possible to be achieved. It doesn't have to be the case that programs rot like food.
A perfect technology is trying to be future-proof because that, of course, saves us the high (and unnecessary) costs of maintenance and reinventing wheels and by this gives its users comfort from being an ever-updating slave and safety from the threat of losing their tools; users of future-proof technology know they can build upon it without fearing it will suddenly break.
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