Yes, I agree, it should be required reading -- as part of an introduction to 20th century European history, of which a lot people today seem to be utterly ignorant.
The parallels you allude to are... unsettling, at the very least.
Alas, I have a nagging feeling that the problem in Silicon Valley today is not so much that its very smart, highly educated people are ignorant of history, but that being blind to it is currently in their best interest.