Darrell

This is a pessimistic view. I prefer the Deutsch / Popper version which is put in my terms like this: "we will never know anything for certain but there is no limit to the growth of our knowledge". Given there are no barriers to what we can know / discover, certainty isn't the prize here, freedom and the ever increasing utility of our knowledge and understanding is. No matter when a person is born, there will never be a moment in which society can tell them "we know all there is to know". This will mean creativity will never be leashed within people.