...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

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

Crypto and paragliding. Bringing fx markets on chain 

A good example of externalities was the destruction of every biome near US cities prior to the 1970s