I am trying to read transcript, but I can't really make sense of it. It seems all over the place. I mean, what is even the argument that society, or growth, is hard science bound? Maybe that isn't the point.<p>Some things that define society, or at least peoples views, have also just been getting harder. You can't really do something as obviously meaningful in space as the moon landing. You can do many other things if you change your frame of reference, but we are not going interstellar anytime soon.<p>If there is any observation I would make it is that the way innovation is made seems to have changed. It used to be you had some sort of goal and then tried to get the best technology to do that. Today, it seems like companies, and societies, are sitting around waiting for technologies to exploit. One day self-driving cars, 3d printed houses and AI enabled health scanners are going to save us all. We aren't really sure how, why or if there is even much worth saving at that point, but it will surely happen?