I get annoyed with comments like yours that reach for absolutisms to try and make a point. No, we wouldn't be stuck in the past "forever". We may just move more slowly into the future than you would prefer.

Given our historic inability to predict the long-term externalities of present-day technologies, I'd say a more cautious approach is warranted compared to the current YOLO strategy.

The only way the human race becomes stuck in the past forever is if it goes extinct.

> we'd be stuck in the past forever

You say this like it's self-evident it's a bad thing, but it's not, even if I'm a middle-class white guy in 1975, let alone an Oneida in 1475.