I've pondered this for awhile, I always hear people talking about "the next Einstein" but I really think we are past the point in society of such groundbreaking discoveries. There are people even more intelligent than Edison around, but at this point all the big stuff has already been discovered,(reply>), The funny thing about knowledge is that you never know what you don't know or how much you don't know.,(reply>), Except for a viable quantum computer, or a submarine that can take a person to the bottom of the marianas trench, or light-speed travel, or immortality, or another planet with sentient life on it, or other places of existence, or teleportation, or...