Creating curious agents that can explore their environment and actions without obvious rewards seems like it'll lead to dramatic progress.
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It would be naive to attribute it to one computer scientist's 1991 paper, since the idea has been around in AI / neuro since the 1950s...
Important ideas typically take decades to mature in a field, they don't pop out of nowhere. It's incremental innovation all the way down.
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It only *appears* as punctuated equilibrium because incremental innovation reaches a threshold and then explodes into a frenzy of progress.
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