What a load of horse shit! We're just getting started here, the "Internet Revolution" just discovered non-computer devices! And biology is just getting tapped...
And those thinking along the lines "most people already have everything they need": well, duh, it's always that way. It's the unreasonable, the uncomfortable, and the restless who create and self actualize. The majority of human nature looks around themselves, takes care of their "necessities" and lives and dies with what is given to them. We, as those hard ass freaks that can't be satisfied, will always push against our limitations, our "gifts", to self actualize, to grow beyond our capabilities, and create something unheard of, unexpected, wonderful and disruptive.
Now, sure Mr. Thiel is a wealthy entrepreneur, but his wealth and fame derives from creating PayPal - a translation of existing credit card transactions to an online environment. I have no doubet it took great effort, but PayPal is hardly innovative, and hence his dark view of real innovation. Plus he's now a VC, so he sees all kinds of half baked startups failing...
As far as Mr Kasparov, I don't consider him an authority on anything. May as well be a super model, considering Kasparov's involvement in invention, new technology and start ups. He's merely famous for chess and writing essays. Not exactly developing science or new ideas at all...