...counter factual universe (that might actually work): 

Find the equivalent of the modern day J.C. Licklider, give him the equiv ($) of what he was handed when transitioning the space programme from military to NASA, with the same freedoms (aka. "don't fuck with Lick")...and then let something actually work.

> with the same freedoms

It's 2023. Freedom got killed by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts.

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> with the same freedoms

It's 2023. Freedom got killed by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts.

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus

Crypto and paragliding. Bringing fx markets on chain 

If Ezra Klein is complaining that your government policies are bad, probably bad

Ironically environmental protections have been weaponized to prevent building important infrastructure (and I support environment regs) but it is a good example of externalities and unintended consequences