Hardly. There are more people today than there ever were before, and not much innovation. I suppose it's possible, as per the saying about the thousand monkeys banging on a thousand typewriters for a thousand years. But that's a lot of bananas and monkey crap while we're waiting for the next world-changing marvel.
I beg to differ. I'm a fairly young man, but in the course of my life I have seen changes that still amaze me. How long did it take man to go from hunter-gatherer societies to full agriculture? From agriculture (and thus high-density cities) to industrial socieities (with incredible increases in the standard of living)? Notice a trend?
As for your analogy, I think a more fiting example would be to compare the possibility of finding a misprint in a book of 10 pages versus one of 10,000 pages.
But that's a lot of bananas and monkey crap while we're waiting for the next world-changing marvel.
Of course. The world always presents us with trade-offs, which was my original point to you. The population debate is never so simple as either side tends to make it.
Not much innovation????
Innovation is alive and well. How do you think Moore's Law keeps working? You are just so immersed in its presence, you don't even see it.