I would say, first, look at where we have come from and look at where we are now. Look at what processes we used to get here. Try in particular to identify certain basic human qualities that made this progression not only possible but indeed inevitable. The record is what is remembered collectively. And it is being exceeded, time after time.
New records push the envelope of human achievement ever outward.
This principle, then, constitutes a kind of shaped charge penetrating the forces of entropy. Bright people increasingly mate with bright people, and their children are bright for the most part, sometimes even brighter, and the bright parents usually see to it that the bright children get full opportunities to develop their native talents. It is, of course, central to our whole argument that it is human intelligence, not some act of God or mere historical circumstance, that accounts for human progress. In the annals of human history and prehistory, brightness is what has paid off in an evolutionary sense, not biceps or canines. There is every reason to believe that future progress will be similarly inspired by a small and especially gifted minority of creative thinkers.