I'll check that out. I read somewhere that there's a bias where we all believe we are living somehow at the end of history, and that surly this time we have eve

I'll check that out. I read somewhere that there's a bias where we all believe we are living somehow at the end of history, and that surly this time we have everything right. Backing up your point about smartness not being the problem, there's a quote, I think from Lord Kelvin of 'the kelvin' fame, saying something like all science has basically been discovered and we just need to fill in the details. We just can't help believing we are at a somehow special point in history.