It is not a given that there must be centralized control though. Things like Unreal Engine, Steemit, etc. provide us with the prospect of pursuing open-sourced and de-centralized systems. It is, at the very least, within the realm of possibility to get the things we need and concentrate on what we like within a de-centralized context.
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Exactly! Let's build the robots! And by that, I mean, us, not some centralized cabal of power brokers. It's happening in some ways, like the drone revolution. Everyone has a drone, people are developing ways to make them commercially useful, like for deliveries, or politically useful, like recording rallies and protests from a vantage point that the police simply can't reach to stop them(i.e. 40 feet in the air).
And, of course, the government is reacting to that, and working to prevent such private uses. You have to register your drones, they can only fly so far, etc. It's a contest, to see which side, the centralists, or the individualists, can respond the fastest with the mostest.