Yes, I'm sure many people think like this. Let me get back to the Gutenberg=Net analogy. I take as relevant history points (rounded numbers)

- 1450 Gutenberg - 1970 Arpanet

- 1500 Luther - 1990 Berners-Lee

- 1700 Leibniz - 2010 Open Access, Open Science

- 1800 USA - x, major event towards the freedom of the internet

If we count in decades, suppose both processes as exponential and we take Gutenberg - Arpanet as the 0 point, then we see

2^t_internet = 5^t_gutenberg

which suggests that the major event x would be at about 4.6 decades after the Arpanet. :)