I think we need to figure out how to extend human lifespan to allow for experts to continue to grow their knowledge/skills past the 40 year retirement mark to have a greater chance of making more advanced breakthroughs.
See the book "the structure of scientific revolutions".
Most scientific breakthroughs through out history were just private citizens outside of the conventional academic establishment.
We need to put an end to these government restrictions on buying supplies and equipment which keeps the research down to just a tiny fraction of the population.
Allowing private citizens to do research would put a fire under those old codgers asses.
I have a few published papers in peer-reviewed journals with 30+ citations and I'm a college dropout, but I run a company that can fund/produce this kind of research as part of our mission statement. It's not really restrictions, but rather money/funding, and willingness of private companies to publish publicly (which is a big blocker for most).
Also, many major historical scientific breakthroughs have been just a smart (usually rich) dude/dudette with a lot of free time and not a member of the conventional 'academic' system.
So somehow figure out a way for public to get in on the research instead of government restrictions on who can purchase supplies which limits research to the .0001% who have PhD's.
This opens the door to a lot more mind power going into research.