Frighteningly close, but we're not quite there yet. The "freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvelous swiftness and perfect r

Frighteningly close, but we're not quite there yet. The "freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvelous swiftness and perfect regularity" part is still lacking (consider recent stories about governments monitoring and censoring the internet, and massive outages from damaged cables).