What's it good for?

Growing up in the Milky Way Galaxy (with apologies to Timothy Ferris) Watching the stars was the way Humanity figured out where it was in the cosmos. You can't tell if you don't look Science is an ever growing body of knowledge that continues to expand exponentially. This points to a singularity sometime in the near future. We've built machines that can imitate speech (passing the Turing test[A] soon.) And it all started with a singularity in the past where Humanity learned to speak. When did science start? Did it start in pre-history? Before people could write? Does science include the ability to make stone tools and slowly improve them so they are easier to use and more efficient? Of course. Science is the observation of objective reality and the ability to construct models with reproducible predictions. Take two rocks of a certain type and shape and bang them together this way and you get a hand axe. It’s magic! Not a miracle but real magic. An incantation with the right...