>>More than space exploration, for example?
Sure.
>>How about games? How about entertainment?
I'm thinking more of science innovation than creativity- the sorts of inventions that truly are game changers but aren't themselves games. ;-)
>>Unfortunately I got a close up look at the health care system during my wife's final days and if that's innovation, I'm Kate Hudson.
Sorry to hear of your loss and poor experience. But it still seems to me that to issue such a judgment, you'd need to see the before and after as each innovation is ushered in.
FWIW, we're well overdue for some groundbreaking cancer treatments and there's good diabetes work underway with potential to save literally trillions in the US.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
