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Originally Posted by peter12
Realistic/pessimistic.
I think science is fabulous. In fact, so fabulous that it has mostly done what it set out to do. There are limits, obviously, and I think we are starting to hit those limits now - both from a pure and applied science perspective.
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I do not really think we are hitting those limits. Maybe slowing down a bit as huge discoveries opened up big areas of innovation in transportation and communication.
In so far as Cosmology and Space exploration there is a tonne of new satellites and planned missions happening. We may actually be in the infancy of an age of Space exploration. Plus the exoplanet hunt is just getting started. A breakthrough in space propulsion could really open things up.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/?type=future
https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/miss...uture-missions
The human Genome project has opened up huge windows of discovery that we are in the infancy of exploring. In fact, they just saved a infants life, using gene Exchange, who had Leukemia.
How about all the potential advances in energy production ? Solar, Wind, Battery, fusion etc. While there have not been any huge breakthroughs, there have been incremental improvements constantly.