[quote=benjammin] There's not much further we can go in scientific discovery,

I am skeptical. Sometime in the 1890s the head of the US Patent Office suggested that his operation be shut down, on the grounds that everything had been invented. In the early 1950s, the prediction was made that only four computers need be built, because they could handle all the computing necessary.

I thin we have a lot to discover, and that we are about to enter into a Golden Age, that is, if we don't ruin the planet (and ourselves) first.