I fear, the more we advance, the more we are going to become permanently entrenched in The Way Things Are.
To really shake things up at a fundamental level will probably require running into an alien species that does basic things differently than us.
Even creative people with lots and lots of spare time and resources at their disposal will still be too "colored" by existing human knowledge and established practices to really try anything new (and without falling into the trap of needlessly reinventing the wheel.)
To really shake things up at a fundamental level will probably require running into an alien species that does basic things differently than us.
Even creative people with lots and lots of spare time and resources at their disposal will still be too "colored" by existing human knowledge and established practices to really try anything new (and without falling into the trap of needlessly reinventing the wheel.)