You may be interested in Vannevar Bush's ideas on this matter from 1945. https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm

Brb in a couple decades. But I was kind of hoping that the domain experts would have thoughts on the topic. I would very much like to build long-term solutions to our biggest problems, but I haven't found a whole lot of mechanisms to do so.