[Eisenstein]

> Well, the whole point of innovation is to question that "more-or-less works". Without that, we would still be hunter gatherers

Do you really believe that it was one person or group of people that said 'hunting and gathering sucks, let's plant seeds and make forges and smelt iron'?

Or was it 'hey, I dropped some seeds and now they are growing, lets put some in dirt and see what happens', i++, goto 1?

To put it another way, how many times has 'let's scrap this working system that has some flaws and start over using an ideology as a back-end' worked out?