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I wouldn’t hold my breath.
For example, I already don’t like you for quoting Jon Lennon
I wouldn't hold my breath either.
Human society continues to careen towards multiple great filters it is ill-prepared to navigate, and the trillion-dollar propaganda machine that got Trump elected works. We just may not be evolved to cooperate at the level that gets us to community-based governments without monied interests interfering.
Mark Twain invested his money into the Paige Compositor, an automated mechanical typesetter, which had over a thousand moving parts in an era that lacked the capacity for precision molding. Babbage constructed the difference engine 2 which worked like a charm when built by students a century later, but he was defunded at the wrong time.
Sometimes we're just not ready for good ideas, and not capable of implementing them at the time they are discovered.