As the obsession with top-down planning and control lost adherents, thousands of small learning experiments to emerge. Others succeeded beyond anyone's expectation. Since the emerging system is, itself, a rich, interconnected learning community of highly independent, entrepreneurial parts, the quickly faded into obscurity with no damage to the system as a whole. The successes are quickly emulated, improved and spread throughout the system. There is no point in going into greater depth about this unusual learning system, for by now the inevitable question has emerged.
Lets have a show of hands.
Well, you're both right. Everything I have described exists right now, right here in the United States, as well as other countries. The required hardware, software, communication capacity, encryption, and other technology exist in abundance and has been proven effective. More is emerging at an exponential rate. There is no organizational form, method, or leadership technique which has not been pioneered and proven successful.