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But sure, “not technology”. No “tech” in silly things like automobiles, energy and computer hardware.
(I don't claim to have any magic ideas about how to make that straightforward in software; it's hard work, really hard - and that is in fact why those same legacy systems move so slowly: they account for the details. a truly visionary, egalitarian approach to technological governance must account for them too, or it may be a false carrot)
I think that 95% of the infrastructure of a typical enterprise (source control, continuous integration, (separate) staff and user authentication, cluster management, monitoring, reporting, hosting, legal entity creation, internationalization, payments) should be (and in many cases, already is) standardized, automated and plug-and-play.
Provide that all in a free and open source manner as a complete (and completely tunable) framework, and we'll see truly democratic dynamic innovation.
If it goes well enough (in a Cambrian kind of acceleration), then I think that authentication and access control could be removed entirely. People would keep the services that they want running, running.