>>1264I think making unadulterated curiosity a bigger motivation and helping people seek and sate would be beneficial yes. It would go a long way towards helping curb huge viral misconceptions that hurt progress, and fend off institutionalized misinformation. That's all fine and dandy, but the issue is how you would reform education to actually achieve that goal.
Where history intersects with technology is where you'll generally find me. Pure history I have huge difficulty with. What's more is that I don't really know a heck of a lot when it comes to history older than the last century and a half beyond incidental fluff.
Inventors are to an extent altruistic, but they don't bring it to its practical ends and real-world applications. The reality is that the means to make a technology flourish will only allow it to if it benefits an affluent few. Its more a tendency for me to learn about technology then incidentally learn the relevant history along the way. Again not that I don't like history, I just don't have the motivation to learn it like I do science and technology.
Naturally that is not 100% always the case that only big industry and war makes progress, and things like the internet allow word of mouth to go much further than it ever could even half a century ago. I still generally have a feeling that we are going in the right direction. The question is if we can manage something like Type 2 civilization before something major erupts like nuclear war. We face many barriers to our continued existence, and the only direction is up.
