One way to dispel the idea that everything has been invented is to imagine something small and mundane – but 100 years in the future.

It seems unlikely that people will be writing code or picking out groceries the same way they do today, for example. Some aspects will be the same. But are you sure we won’t be picking out groceries in VR?

Another thing that helps: technological progress seemed exponential over the last century, but in the long term it’s actually sigmoidal. Progress happens in jumps.