"The political problem is more difficult, because there are enormous vested interests in the present lack of system. There are the rival electronic mail companies. There are the organizers of the various non-profit networks. There are the engineers developing protocols for the various networks. I've talked to a few of them, and intellectual arguments have remarkably little effect."
- #JohnMcCarthy
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html
Sound familiar?