I really feel like humans should stop trying to innovate now and start removing rather than adding. Civilisation has become like a Heston Blumenthal eating experience, with dry ice and music and lasers, when really what we need is just a really good potato.
@TheBreadmonkey I remember a few years back, at Christmas, Waitrose was selling a "special" Heston invention of Earl Grey flavoured stollen, which just made me go "no, dammit. Just have a piece of stollen flavoured stollen, with a cup of Earl Grey tea like a sane person. Stop being silly."