> "We lost ourselves in incremental improvements and wars of efficiencies" If blogs existed when the steam engine was created, I'm sure someone would be postin

> "We lost ourselves in incremental improvements and wars of efficiencies" If blogs existed when the steam engine was created, I'm sure someone would be posting an article about how the state of the Steam Engine has stagnated and we are simply optimizing. Arguably, this always happens, because low hanging fruit is so easy to grab. It's easy to have big, grand visions when you are discovering ground-breaking science every single month. I'm from a biology background, so pharmaceuticals are a great example. Penicillin was huge and thought to solve everything. The second round of penicillin derivatives were equally magical. Then we started to see resistant strains of bacteria and had to start tweaking the magic formula, fighting for small improvements in efficiency. The same happened to all major drug categories. We are in an era where most major small molecules have already been discovered, tweaked and optimized. We will continue to tweak until the next big thing comes along, and then it will start all over again.