It’s absolutely a technology problem. The hacker mentality is still the one who innovates and a single person is more than enough to make a significant contribution towards a very different future. That person is probably already working on it.
And here I will interject and argue a third point that it's primarily an organizational problem, and I am already working on it.
Not ready to spill the beans yet though on my projects, first have low back surgery tomorrow to get an artificial disc put in between L5-S1 - and will see how much my overall pain goes down, and how much my productivity can go up - before knowing when I can make any public announcements.