@Gravimatrix I read your "About" page and I felt like we have shared perspectives. Right up until it said "It must come from Humanity as a whole."
That is an objective impossibility and an inherently wrong minded way of looking at the world. Transformational, paradigm shifting break-throughs have always come from either an individual or a small group. On this planet, the conditions only ever improve and the world of opportunity is only ever expanded by the few, while the many violently oppose and resolve to claw their way back into the dirt dwelling ways of nature and mindlessness, any lover of creational venture and progress in tow.
Failure to understand that you are NOT the majority and that the majority DESPISES any kind of futuristic values or display of ability to manipulate matter according to the will of a Self - and schemes against it - will destroy your project. This is in fact the problem with libertarian endeavors - the assumption that everyone is "really" a libertarian "deep down" and would contribute positively to the movement if not somehow brainwashed. It is an inability to acknowledge that we are the few and adopt forth-flowing worldviews and tactics. It is an inability to act in one's own interest and value set.
While you are right about the need to decentralize the research and development of futuristic systems, it is BECAUSE of "humanity" - collective and universal mindedness - that you cannot progress though highly public or visible channels. You are having the problem of limitation and stagnation because you are not allowed to do anything without the permission, good feelings, and "safety" of the collective, yet dissidents insist on a commitment to the interests of the collective.
Break out of this universal crap and adopt the attitude of war and rebellion. Build the community of those you can trust and work seriously despite collective disapproval. Humanity and their natural desires and affinities or evolutionary conditions are the enemy.