We make tools, protocols, technologies that improve our productivity and that’s how we advance - it’s all on layers of innovation.
See fire, water (hydraulics), railroads & logistics, oil, internet - all as foundational technologies that got us where we are today and allow us to work on today's innovations.
-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove