Human culture rests on social organisation before writing and language, which rests on primate and mammalian organisation, which rests on complex molecular systems, which are made of atoms, which are made of protons, electrons, neutrons. Every time novelty is achieved, it is then set in concrete and becomes the basis for a further ascent into novelty.
Human history is not something that goes on endlessly into the future; it’s something that lasts about 25,000 years and then so much novelty has accumulated that essentially every point in the system becomes co-tangent with every other.
We have an appointment with transformation or extinction. There’s no third possibility. Business as usual is off the menu.