Reanimating a ghost

Chase McCoy articulates this idea of “reversibility” in the world of art restoration:

One of the foundational principles in art restoration is reversibility: the notion that any intervention made to a work should be removable without harming the original. It’s a kind of humility encoded into the restorer’s practice, a tacit acknowledgment that today’s best solution might be tomorrow’s regrettable overstep.

Would love this idea ported to tech.

Let’s normalize making today’s solutions easily reversible.

Let’s humbly acknowledge that our current selves might not Know Everything™️, and our future selves (or comrades) may very well be better situated to solve what we’re attempting now.