What it takes to be the "creme de la creme"

I'm not going to lie, I went ahead and read Moksh's blog post before I made this. So what I'm saying will be highly influenced by that fact.

I'm not sure how many of you guys have actually heard of or used the phrase "creme de la creme." It basically translates to "best of the best." If you think about that, society is like that. We, the species Homo S. Sapiens (at present, God only knows when we will evolve into the transhuman or posthuman and have to add a third "sapiens" to that name) are the best of the best that has ever existed on this planet. Thus far.

"But Nick," you say, "think of the dinosaurs! They were in control of Earth longer than us! They were bigger, stronger, animals better suited for their environment than us!" But were they really? The truth is, from an evolutionary standpoint, the best species is the most fit species in terms of survival. And the dinosaurs weren't really that fit in terms of surviving monster asteroid strikes. Mammals were. They were the best. We were the best. Maybe, one day, nuclear war will destroy humankind and all that is left will be cockroaches and the like. Then, perhaps, I will cede that we are (or rather, at that point, were) not the best.

Now think of one of the most important inventions we have ever made: the computer. About fifty years ago, we invented the transistor based computer. Ten years later, the first "Programma 101" (one of, if not, the first personal computer) hit the shelves with a price tag of about $3,000 ($23,000 today). It had a memory of 240 bytes. Now, we have easy commercial access to computers with terabytes of memory for under $1,000 (for reference, a terabyte is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes). Now, the RAM on a computer doubles every four years. Now, faster and faster computer evolution is required in order for companies to create something that the consumers will call "fast enough."

And now, we are so advanced that transgenic plants are within our grasp. Lots of discoveries had to be made to get here. The creation of stone tools, metallurgy, firearms, nuclear weapons and the like were all important inventions that brought mankind dominance over both his unenlightened brethren and nature. But we keep losing this dominance, and so we keep creating more and more advanced technologies to get it back. And now the ability to create transgenics is within our grasp. The advancement of us brings the world within our grasp. The advancement of the world brings it out of our grasp. So we keep advancing. To keep our spot as the creme de la creme of the living things on earth, we now need to advance at a dizzying rate.

Who knows how we will advance next?

For reference, here's a video interview of the creators of a potential replacement for light bulbs with transgenic plants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMDiRKootnI