Good thing the group has come up with some blue sky ideas then.
"You don't turn a public process on its head," he said, "because one or two people have a new blue-sky idea of what it could be".
It now reads like a cross between an Alan Partridge "monkey tennis" blue-skies idea session and a howl of existential despair.
The D.I.Y. world isn't new, but what is novel is how filmmakers and other industry insiders are sharing their nuts-and-bolts experiences and blue-sky ideas both in person and online, creating a virtual infrastructure.
Among the other blue-sky ideas that Mr Deakin discussed was the possibility that within 30 years aircraft might fly in formation to reduce drag, much like a flock of birds.
Last year, the Friends of the High Line, a group of artists, writers and concerned neighbors, invited architects, designers and homegrown visionaries to submit blue-sky ideas for the track's future.
But Darpa has a long tradition of financing blue-sky ideas, and the agency was hoping to find help from unexpected quarters, like Team LoGHIQ of Walden, N.Y., which invested about $10,000 in its hybrid, a garage project powered by a gas generator and electric motors.
But a longer-term view isn't synonymous with funding blue-sky ideas, as in the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which Time dubbed "the Department of Big Dreams".
Are they Googley in the sense that they're not afraid to fail fast or challenge the status quo, and have what we like to call "a healthy disregard for the impossible?" Since we want this to be about funding blue-sky ideas and taking informed risk, the approach needs to be bold but pragmatic.
That being said, there are some really good ideas that can come from trying to think with the same 'big idea, blue sky' strokes of genius as the real-life Tony Stark- like Shazam for plants, a Roomba for killing bugs, or drones that can get other drones out of trees.
