You could very well be right, it could take decades. I think Augmented Reality will abruptly allow a lot of non-geeks to suddenly be aware of certain realities

You could very well be right, it could take decades. I think Augmented Reality will abruptly allow a lot of non-geeks to suddenly be aware of certain realities (imagine seeing a calorie counter on your food, or the fact their data flows are going off somewhere outside of their control), so I hope that will accelerate progress in an Agent based direction. Agents will be easier to build if they are visualized, they may allow for metaphorical understandings across millions of people.