Is it time for a big theorist to come?

I was reading an article about future research area. These two usually has helped one another. Science brings new ideas, new way of abstract thinking, which helps technology to be more diverse. On the other hand, technology makes an environment for scientist’s mind to be grown and explore new area of unknowns.

Imagine progress in basic science in 17th and 18th century. It helped applied scientists to invent lots of stuff. Again there was a wave of big theorists in the first mid-20th century which followed in the second mid-20th century by the era of space and computer.

It seems for me that science and technology dynamically moving along with interaction with each other. When sometimes one is slow, we should wait for a while for the other one to come to help it.

Sometimes I think that we are living in a time that there is no ‘big minds’ who can think abstractly very powerful, like what Einstein could do. There are lots of researches in the area of finding function of mind, brain modeling. It really seems that there is a lack of big theorists in these fields.

Although I don’t believe that dynamical moving of science and technology is not something periodical, but more chaotic, I still agree that they follow some kind of generic pattern (sort of chaos in a general order).