Seems unlikely.....................

     The world since 1914 has developed in ways very different from what I should have desired.  Nationalism has increased, militarism has increased, liberty has diminished.  Large parts of the world are less civilized than they were.  Victory in two great wars has much diminished the good things for which we fought.   All thinking and feeling is overshadowed by the dread of a new war worse than either of its predecessors.  No limit can be seen to the possibilities of scientific destruction.  But, in spite of these causes for apprehension, there are reasons, though less obvious ones, for cautious hope.  It would now be technically possible to unify the world and abolish war altogether.  It would also be technically possible to abolish poverty completely.  These things would be done if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.  There were, in the past, physical obstacles to human well-being.  The only obstacles now are in the souls of men.  Hatred, folly and mistaken beliefs alone stand between us and the millennium.  While they persist, they threaten us with unprecedented disaster.  But perhaps the very magnitude of the peril may frighten the world into common sense.

-Bertrand Russell, from his essay "From Logic To Politics in Portraits From Memory and Other Essays.  Russell (1872-1970) published this book in 1951.