Then --> ... Years ... Decades ... -->||

We're still working on it. Against that Indifference-barrier.
(But then, since 9-27-62 publication--shortly before Cuba-near-WW-III--the Rate of Distractions has steadily risen;
With now nonillions of transistor-junctions humming: it continues to rise, exponentially.
Good Signal still -vs- perpetually-worsening Noise.

I doubt that we HAVE the time left to, confab? with one-demented-hand at a time, patiently seeking at least one Aha!! and hoping for an epiphany.
It's going to be a Mass-media War; War for the eyeballs of enough already-influential Icons: because we are all 'ants' now, in the face of Famousness.