our world isn't under heaven though, increasingly a lot of bureaucracy can be automated away - it just ISN'T because a fair deal of automation means taking away control from politicians. add to that the technical illiteracy in general in the political sphere and there is no push for automation apart from authoritarian governments like china

all we need is an event that demonstrates the need for a world government - for eg a massive asteroid headed at earth or a planetary scale food drought to see these systems implemented.

the world is stagnating