My mind took off with that notion. It's all been done, no need to redo it. That made me think about how much I disagreed or wondered at all the interpretations of various poetry in college that gave the notion that one created art to endure...like a sculpture or something. Even in the movie "Annonymous" as the works of Shakespeare are taken, an argument happens between Ben Johnson and Edward's wife to the effect that the only way any of them will continue to exist is because her husband wrote it down.
This just couldn't be the reason things were created. Look at the pyramids in Egypt. I refuse to believe so much effort was put into the effort of enduring there's more to it. I did not ever create music or art in hopes of living on through it. Oh dear, now my head is playing that song from the movie, "Titanic" so, that is the notion that mankind gives for families, too. We live on forever in our legacy. Yeah, well that may be where it started but my idea was that similarly we do not want to become successful because of the originality of our ideas, but it will, like thousands of Superman cells vying for a chance to be the next human if our creations are not original they will not likely continue, like photos taken and then copied in each form until the only original to exist is one that was true and lasted.
It reminds me of a quote I hate, "You will find it in the last place you look." Duh, why would you keep looking for a thing if you already found it?
When a wheel is needed inside a future device, it is not likely, one will say, "Now let's invent a tool that is round and completes it's task with each turn. I know, I know! Something like a wheel! A wheel? Oh yeah, it has already been invented. We will use that!
