Or maybe we are so intellectually impoverished that there are a lot of orthogonal advances that we just do not see and do not try to pursue. Like, most of mode

Or maybe we are so intellectually impoverished that there are a lot of orthogonal advances that we just do not see and do not try to pursue. Like, most of modern chipmaking is just glorified analog photography, who knows what sort of microprocessors we could make through wildly different processes.