Elon Musk hyperloop whitepaper pipedream...he made it in one night, probably on heavy drugs. It got press for 8 years, still getting press.
A bastardised version of Hyperloop got hundreds of millions in public funding in Las Vegas and Los Angeles for what essentially amounts to a large underground car garage with skeets. The company selling this bastardised version just raised 700M in equity.
"infeasible".
When you open the floodgates of the court of public opinion...it becomes the game of the person who screams the loudest and is able to con people with the most confidence or has the loudest megaphone.
History has shown us time and time again that the best governance system is a bunch of elder statesmen who are terrified of being judged harshly by their peers long after they are gone.
For example people still say about Newton that his track record wasn't immaculate because he wasted time looking for hidden messages in the Bible or trying to turn bronze into gold.
Same for Einstein, his track record isn't immaculate because he was wrong on quantum-mechanics.
Elder statesmen who dream of having the track record of a Pythagoras, that's the perfect governance system, that just requires finding them, doesn't require crypto-tokens or blockchain or any other flavor du jour tech.