Are there other, wholly different solutions to such challenges that ingenious scientists will devise or, as it even more likely, stumble across? That possibility keeps scientists and engineers laboring in their laboratories day and night, seven days a week. Perhaps Adam Smith was right: those driven purely by curiosity and a willingness to ask seemingly irrelevant questions will discover the substances that shape the course of history. We saw how the printing process benefited from capabilities developed by Flemish artists; perhaps new visions will emerge from a union of art, engineering, and science, all of which, as the American sculptor David Smith reminds us, share common goals. Whoever it is must have the ability to combine, as Adam Smith put it, “the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects.” Upon that ability human civilization has always depended.