Whether this particular scenario is plausible or not, the overarching concept behind it is path dependence. Path dependence implies that humankind may only have one chance to go through certain transformations. For instance, the Internet, begun in 1966, took nearly 30 years to become the behemoth force it is now. No single corporation could have pulled it off because of the timeline alone.

Consider however that we've been doing this transformation thing since we began as a species.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence