You are right on all those points except for 1998 in my opinion. Investment was not as founder friendly and not as available to ordinary people with a smaller i

You are right on all those points except for 1998 in my opinion. Investment was not as founder friendly and not as available to ordinary people with a smaller idea, as it was pre crowd funding. But I think I am right as well in that we (humans) have never been this able to solve problems like this. Ballon based Internet and mobile devices will let developing countries leap frog the networking model of the west. For the problem of clean water in places without public water utilities we need open source hardware projects that design cheap and easy for ordinary people/communities to make from available materials, raw and finished. Something like a solar still that's so cheap and easy to construct it changes the entire equation. And I know that sounds hand wavey and politics are still important. But I believe all politics get easier when there is less scarcity, and technology can reduce scarcity. And I can't fix politics, so I'm focusing on all the power I do have to make things better.