research that drives innovation involves brute forcing nature until it reveals its secrets
The further we advance science, the more this becomes true. As an example, if we had literally infinite computational power my lab would be able to instantly identify the markers and fully model the progression of Alzheimer's. Another lab would then be able to instantly identify either a stop-medicine or a cure by modelling the interaction of every possible molecule with the disease.
Exciting times, and very depressing to see where much of the crypto compute power is actually pointed...