nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about
in reply to Molly White

I sometimes see my kids do the latter.

Last time my son saw on my phone some "3D images" based on optical illusions and eye focus tricks.
He was like: "I am SURE we can create glasses so that your phone can be used to see a video game in 3D!".
Kid just reinvented VR headset.
Now give him millions in money from South Africa emerald mines during apartheid, I bet he will create his own and sell it as a new complete revolution (no he won't, my son is actually pretty smart and nice)

in reply to Molly White

In a talk by Marc Sageman many many years ago about psychology of 9/11 attackers he mentioned disproportionate number of engineers among them. Said mindset of ENG was to ignore centuries of scholarship on Koran in favor of rereading from first principles. Compared them to early 20th C anarchists (think WWI) also including many engineers. Talk at Navy War College I think. I may be slightly mischaracterizing but that's my hazy recollection.