Yes absolutely. What qualifies Anish Kapoor's Bean for example as art above the Shadow of the Colossus? And there was an absolute explosion of written works on

Yes absolutely. What qualifies Anish Kapoor's Bean for example as art above the Shadow of the Colossus? And there was an absolute explosion of written works only starting two centuries ago - due to mass scale printing. And even in books, fantasy is somehow not high literature - which is just gatekeeping at this point. In physics for example, computational modelling has been exploding. The availability of GPUs and ML based modelling has been rising rapidly too. Yet another point - when I was a MS student quantum computing was a pie in the sky fantasy - today it's an exploding field. Same for energy storage - the progress we have made there in the last decade is mind boggling. There is an effect that we humans cannot really accept - it takes time to really judge the quality of a work. And that time is often decades. Human beings are exceptionally poor at long term thinking (we have literally mountains of evidence for this) and yet stubbornly refuse to accept this limitation.