Years ago, I was at a biology outreach-to-the-humanities seminar. Someone asked about the driver of these decades of progress. They were seemingly fishing for

Years ago, I was at a biology outreach-to-the-humanities seminar. Someone asked about the driver of these decades of progress. They were seemingly fishing for some Kuhnian escape from old oppressively restraining dogmas. And were visibly unhappy with the answer that it was mostly economics. Rapidly advancing technology changing the set of questions we can afford to pursue.