- "A few more iterations and no-one will need to think"
I disagree. A few more iterations people would think more about how to think and improve thinking, and focus more on the root problem rather than nitty-gritty problems along the way.
I used to think that way until I actually read The Odyssey. I used to suffer under the delusion that all things advance like technology. Thus, I thought, surely a work like The Odyssey must be extremely primitive, as compared to novels written in the 21st century. But in actuality, The Odyssey is jam-packed with narrative twists and turns. It has recursive unreliable narrators, it presents stories out of chronological order, it's full of deep meaning in almost every line. We have NOT improved since the days when bards memorized stories. We have gotten worse.
"Sons are seldom as good men as their fathers; they are generally worse, not better"--Homer, The Odyssey
You do realize that the version you read isn't by any means the original, and is going to be the result of millennia of narrative drift? I'm not saying that it couldn't have been complex, but whatever you read isn't going to be how Homer told it.
I disagree. A few more iterations people would think more about how to think and improve thinking, and focus more on the root problem rather than nitty-gritty problems along the way.