when Silicon Valley still had a stomach for true innovation!! It's sad how the pinnacle of innovation today is one big company copying some stupid thing from another big or small company, like the stupid so-called shorts of youtube!!!
https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc... https://archive.vn/CKdqr
That's the "when"... To reproduce it we need similar conditions, the opposite of actual neoliberal agenda...
Actually IMVHO when the web became as popular as minitel for the masses a kind of Great Reset actually happen: people do not even know what was before the early 2000s, even if they were already born and sufficiently aged to remember personally...
There is also an enormous issue: schools/universities. In the past we have had talents, because they were smart, BUT also because they can attend schools/unis good enough to make their talents grow and a society around to make that flourish. In the present society we still have smart peoples BUT we miss large part of education, now hyper-centered around neoliberals with even universities that does not form "techies", "people of culture" but modern stereotypical "qualified Ford-model workers", witch means form people not for the society needs and desire but for a very little part of it, the actual élites needs and desires witch happen to be against 99% common interests.
I a decade I even expect that universities will not be anymore universities but "Google school", "Mersk school", "Black Rock school" etc starting from the early childhood to better bend peoples to their own needs and desire.
In the end: take a Chinese who never exit China, a perfectly honest and neutral one he/she very probably do not think to live in a dictatorship but in a just regime that make China great, give foods, jobs etc. having not comparisons, having studied government propaganda he/she can't really know something else, only very few very smart can form a different view but still having issues to figure a different working society... At that point to came back to a society with educations and conditions to make talents flourish really like in our past it would take 50 even 100 years, we need to pass through a big scarcity because all regimes to rein need to give something to the people and they give something in bad ways wasting resources making them scarce, at that point an enemy appear, a fight, suffering etc and finally enough people will realize that they are in a dictatorship, then they unite against the regime who of course try to repress at first demolish from the inside thereafter etc and more unrest happen for more years. That's the issue. We probably came back to a good evolving and advanced society but for 2060, 2080...