It's cool to find this evidence.

But now we have the opposite problem... there is so much good information and technology out there, yet we're often not able to effectively use it. (What, another failed infrastructure / IT / software project? Don't we know how to make those?)

Our collective ego has gotten so big, we often lack the humility to say, "Wait, I need to see who has the best technology / method in this area", and then learn it and apply it.