Akin's Laws of Spacecraft design apply. If you want to have the biggest effect on how something shakes out become an artist.

And ideas have a flow. Nentally disturbed/child->Artist->Scientist/Engineer/Academic/Professional->Everybody else. Some other diversions may apply.

The mentally disturbed are the most sensitive to society at large's edge cases, but largely incomprehensible to everyone else due to divergent world view. The Artist breathes the surreal and unarticulated, in the practice of their work articulating that which defies the aggregate capability of the majority of society to manifest. That seeds the way for elucidation, exposition, and enumeration for the current flight of society's operant effectors, who implement it, which then trickles into the pool of common knowledge.

If you're seeing an artistic work in your life, and not keeping an eye out for it's implementations. You're running half-asleep to be frank.