Sure. There always existed persons who said we were reaching or had already reached our scientific limits (and doomsayers always sold well )...
As an example (an historical joke) one "chief inventor" (or a similar job) of queen Victoria resigned arguing that everything that was to be invented had already been discovered (an honest public servant).
Personaly I don't think we are going all that fast, maybe on the opposite - if you see "future thinking" literature (AKA science fiction) of the middle of the century we should be living in a Jetsons environment by the turn of the century. Maybe the writers were overly optimistic regarding technical advancement, but we are not advancing all that fast.
What are the limits of science and human ability? We'll find out when we get there but, I would say, not in this millenium...
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise
As an example (an historical joke) one "chief inventor" (or a similar job) of queen Victoria resigned arguing that everything that was to be invented had already been discovered (an honest public servant).
Personaly I don't think we are going all that fast, maybe on the opposite - if you see "future thinking" literature (AKA science fiction) of the middle of the century we should be living in a Jetsons environment by the turn of the century. Maybe the writers were overly optimistic regarding technical advancement, but we are not advancing all that fast.
What are the limits of science and human ability? We'll find out when we get there but, I would say, not in this millenium...
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise