It's hard to quantify innovation because it's not well defined concept and it has many levels.
"Catching Crumbs from the Table" is a science fiction short story by Ted Chiang, published in Nature June 2000 https://www.nature.com/articles/35014679 It was published as "The Evolution of Human Science" in his "Stories of Your Life and Others" collection.
Humans just can't keep up. Human science becomes hermeneutics and communication with super-intelligent metahumans.
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