We may unlock the secrets of creation, figure out what time means and master telepathy and teletransportation. Only one of these makes my personal Top Ten list for the new era, however.
Some people see things as they are and ask why.
Others see things as they should be, and ask why not. I see things as they never were, and long for their return. The value of labor. Work, the process, can be a beautiful thing, quite apart from our attempts to measure it in dollars. The importance of human contact.