> But WHY do this at all? "I have seen the future, and it works", an infamous phrase if there ever was one, did not come out of the blue. For three centuries

> But WHY do this at all? "I have seen the future, and it works", an infamous phrase if there ever was one, did not come out of the blue. For three centuries now, we've been groomed to expect bountiful marvels out the "unstoppable progress" of history. Which, incidentally, is a novel concept, not present in human discourse before the XVIII century.