The last time a people stopped exploration to focus on "real" problems, they lost tech lead, stagnated for 500 years: China in 15th century
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the ban on ocean-going ships en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin
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also Roman military-focused utilitarian science/math contributions were far less than Greeks, who "dreamed" and philosophized


