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As our expertise grows, we tend to reinforce “The Way We’ve Always Done It” — a concept more elegantly known as Cognitive Entrenchment. While some facets of our mental frameworks serve us well, others may start to hold us back. When applied at a societal level, these norms become traditions that become hard to optimize. An experiment in lateral thinking: Imagine the opportunity to populate Mars tomorrow. Would we replicate Earth’s processes, or could we reinvent entirely new systems? What if we...