> "What happened to all the geniuses?" was somewhat obvious -- we ran out of an abundance of low hanging fruit to discover. Same thoughts. Even though we, as c

> "What happened to all the geniuses?" was somewhat obvious -- we ran out of an abundance of low hanging fruit to discover. Same thoughts. Even though we, as civilization, had less resources in the past to discover "the world", one person could "easily" study the whole body of knowledge accumulated over the years and try to come up with something new. Add to that that the person is a genius, and you get something remarkable. Nowadays it's, imho, impossible for a single person to learn the whole body of knowledge of any single branch of science or arts.