Your tone is antagonistic, and so I'll answer in kind. "We need radically better ways to think, organize, and communicate" is a load of unsubstantiated nonsens

Your tone is antagonistic, and so I'll answer in kind. "We need radically better ways to think, organize, and communicate" is a load of unsubstantiated nonsense. We can contact, point-to-point, basically anyone in the developed world on a whim. We can do so with text, audio, and/or video. The communication problem is pretty well solved--it's just not distributed yet, and even then there is a question of whether it should be. Your sequence? Talking, writing, printing, radio, computers, internet? We've been slowly backsliding on all of that as people become lazier and lazier with their communications (see twitter/vine), and more eager in their use of filter bubbles. Hell, it's getting to the point where even that basic "talking" thing is hard...just watch how many people at a restaurant spend their time with their face stuck in their phones. There's your communication. There's your progress. This "is anyone ambitious anymore?" line is just complete self-indulgent bullshit. People are building drones, people are building rockets, people are curing cancer, people are trying (with mixed results, sigh) to fix healthcare, and all sorts of things. Just because those people aren't working on your pet little issue doesn't mean you should demean their work. Seriously, get over yourself.