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Would we have modern machinery, and space travel without Newton's laws? Modern electronics without the discoveries of Faraday, Maxwell, and others? Computers without quantum mechanics? GPS sattelites without general relativity? Unforeseen world changing invention X without the discovery of the Higgs boson? If you thought the answer to any of these was yes, then you probably took this article seriously. While he makes a valid point that technology will continue to grow in the absence of scientific input, it will be severely limited. Science and technology create a positive feedback loop with each other, and if one ceases to grow, the other will follow suit after some time.