Outside of the long-term possibilities mentioned by ephbit, I largely agree with your take here for the realistic short-term and mid-term (before 2033). In fact

Outside of the long-term possibilities mentioned by ephbit, I largely agree with your take here for the realistic short-term and mid-term (before 2033). In fact, I think the only thing I disagree with in this post is the size of the pool of people who can really dive into these topics at a professional level - I think we could at least manage to fill a conference center or small cruise ship :)