[zith]

I have not been close to this field in over a decade, but this is the internet, so I will comment anyway!

I think one of the issues is that in some parts of academia, progress is made one PhD at a time. And a PhD is almost always too narrow to bring all of these fields together. I'm sure they are solvable problems, and I'm sure they will be solved. But maybe it will take some other research structure? Private? Guaranteed long time funding for academic teams?