The solutions to today's problems will generally inspire new ambitions and therefore new problems after that. I think most people would say the pressing problems of (say) 16th century Europe have been extremely well solved, but now we've gone on and have new Inevitable Conflicts.
Four hundred years from now, people are going to have a hard time understanding what precisely we were all worked up about.
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The solutions to today's problems will generally inspire new ambitions and therefore new problems after that. I think most people would say the pressing problems of (say) 16th century Europe have been extremely well solved, but now we've gone on and have new Inevitable Conflicts.
Four hundred years from now, people are going to have a hard time understanding what precisely we were all worked up about.