Raw LLM Responses

Dunno if this is what you want to hear, but lately I've become extremely optimistic about the future. Lots of world-changing technology has been very slowly developing or sitting on the back burner for about the last 20 years for lack of investment. Now that money is starting to loosen up again, I think we are going to see a flood of innovation over the next couple decades. A lot of the simmering developments (for example, carbon chemistry, nanorobotics, DNA manipulation...) are enablers for all kinds of inventions, and provide a platform for innovation we can't predict. In combination I think these things will look like a major revolution, equal to what my grandmother saw as she was born in the horse and buggy era and lived to see air travel and spaceships. I don't think you are wasting your time getting a degree. I think it's especially important for people like you who seem to want to do exciting, important things to get a solid background in the fundamentals, and to prepare to keep learning for the rest of your life.