The value of which skyrockets as each older antibiotic becomes increasingly useless. That&#x27;s being entirely ignored, seemingly in every article that talks about this problem.<p>A recent example of a new antibiotic:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;science-nature&#x2F;new-antibiotic-dirt-soil-can-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria-180953828&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;science-nature&#x2F;new-antibiotic-...</a><p>Or how about this: a break-through that goes beyond classic antibiotics. Something that hasn&#x27;t been thought of yet. Not like humans have a history of accomplishing such feats, right? Not like the entire last century of medicine falls into that category.<p>I can&#x27;t think of a single example in modern history, in which our species has failed to think its way out of a major problem. X Y Z bad thing was supposed to take us down, or impede our progress, and we thought our way out of it. We&#x27;ll continue to do that, and the overly dramatic forecasters of doom will continue to be wrong as they always are.