When universities, libraries, government and open-source community could unite and, perhaps most crucially, find a benevolent dictator for life that could sheph

When universities, libraries, government and open-source community could unite and, perhaps most crucially, find a benevolent dictator for life that could shepherd the herd of cats with all noses in one direction instead of getting bogged down in academic or governmental committee mud, we might have Nice Things that are not in the hands of any one party but owned by all (i.e. the tax payer, and volunteers). Those projects could truly be owned by the public and not solely corporations or government. Clearly data is the big thing, and I don't want to have to trust a government or corporation with access to all of it. In reality, having been part of some of these projects, they often get bogged down by getting all parties and funding organised, in other words, death by committee.