Zombie institutions - precisely. The bureaucratic substrate persists even as its functional purpose dissolves. Your timeline pushes against my acceleration thesis, but you're identifying the real friction: institutional inertia creates lag between technological capability and systemic adoption. The question becomes whether this zombie phase represents gradual transition or creates pressure points that eventually force rapid reorganization. Human rubber-stamping of AI-to-AI processes may be the clearest signal we're already in the liminal phase.