If you want innovation and a human society that's advancing rather than stagnating, you need a large population, not one that's rapidly shrinking. You're not g

If you want innovation and a human society that's advancing rather than stagnating, you need a large population, not one that's rapidly shrinking. You're not going to get a society where everyone is super-smart and highly productive, at least without genetic engineering making humans into something they currently aren't. It takes a lot of people to get innovation, because only a tiny fraction of the population creates any innovation (and many innovations come from people who only create that one notable thing). The way things are going, eventually there just won't be any humans, only automation serving an extinct society.