People talk about exponential technology progress as though we fully understood the problems we&#x27;re trying to solve, so advances toward those problems&#x27; solutions will increase at an ever increasing and noticeable rate.<p>Unfortunately, as we advance toward the solution horizon for many of these hard problems (AI, cancer, aging, etc.) we continue to find that the horizon is at best remaining at a fixed distance.  In some cases, like with cancer, the more we learn, the further away it seems a real cure will ever be.  It&#x27;s like trying to find your way through a maze that is actually a constantly evolving fractal.<p>So while CRISPR&#x2F;Cas9 is a magnificent discovery, it could be as though the discovery of the wheel 5,500 years ago meant that the Tesla would soon be available.