Slight improvements

We could all start working on a solution to make sure we never have to cut nails again. The brightest students would be creating new ways of genetically modifying ourselves, the industry would soar with competition, famous investors would buy stocks.

But no one is really tired of having to cut nails, so we just make a good nail clipper instead.

Humans solve pressing problems first, and once they’re solved, the new pressing problems are those that we considered non-problems the day before. The world improves one little bit at a time, and this is fantastic.

The nail problem will come back to haunt us in several hundred years.