[armitron]

Yes and this will without a doubt take place too. In fact, some would say it's already happening.

My point is that the process, if we might call it that, will be osmotic and not discrete. Of course there is also the notion of people believing that there is a layer of central planning somewhere and that "we" (groups, organizations, nation states) actually have high-level organizational control over what is happening.. Watching Taleb talk about tail events will quickly put these notions to the ground.

We shouldn't waste time inventing such control when there is none or even inventing the illusion that such control will be effective. All we can do, I feel, is guide.