Since gundams are too impractical, I think we’ll end up defaulting to this least worst practical answer that satisfies the criteria.
Let us go forth, fellow humans, and b2b SaaSify everything. Vidy has shown us the way out of the meaning crisis.
Problem with bleeding edge science and math civilizational goals is it reduces 99.9999% of humans to mere admiring spectator NPCs. The best we can aspire to is delivering Uber eats sandwiches to the symposium on quantum gravity.
The 1964 NY worlds fair was the last time this kind of “civilizational goals” conversation made any sense.
After Montreal 1967 it was rebranded world expo and became an increasingly tedious cultural nationalism bureaucratic boondoggle.