I also have no reason to believe that, just because we now have a clear understanding of the sequence of the development of knowledge, we have the ability to change this. Knowledge is far too difficult to create even with a toolkit we know well, for any of us to imagine becoming facile with a very advanced set, inventing the distant future. The answer lies in the nature of inventors. I try hard not to use the environments artifact, though I am not always successful. The answer is much simpler and much less mystical.
Inventors are people in search of uniqueness.
They are always looking for the connection, the suggestion, the insight, the model that will allow them to fashion the entities, sites, and fasteners that bring us definition, pattern, and meaning. These pioneers are constantly searching inside and outside of their disciplines for new metaphors, new patterns, new links. They cast their eyes on everything, scrutinizing a wide variety of inventions, hoping that something or someone will provide a trigger, a clue. It is frustrating out there as an inventor of fundamentally new artifacts. It is lonely and difficult.