This is not a question that would be answerable until at least 50 years from now. Discoveries that seem inconsequential are often profound, and vice versa.
Rise and decline of large scale human efforts and societies is generally only visible in retrospect. A good chunk of the people in any golden age think they are in a dark age or that doom is on the immediate horizon.
Rise and decline of large scale human efforts and societies is generally only visible in retrospect. A good chunk of the people in any golden age think they are in a dark age or that doom is on the immediate horizon.