When looking back to last century science has had a tremendaous progress.
Thinking about what is ahead of us, I would argue that there are 3 scenarios.
Incremental progress
Big leap of science
This how compling it is for us as humans, its
There are still things we dont understand partially or fully. What is dark matter, how does the human brain work, why are we aging?
Even if there is an explanation there reverse of aging or calculating the universe is yet to be expalined and the scenetifical progress from such questions yet to be unlocked.
In ways the system is flaud. We have publihs or peerish, a local maximize optimzations games.