It’s probably too late to go back and change the title to “Please shit on this thread”
It has been one of my contentions for a long time that as soon as something can be named it comes into existence, whether invented or discovered or just imagined. In the realm of SF that’s often enough and when people take those imagined things as serious things to ponder, sooner or later one gets discovered or invented.
What’s mind-blowing is to try to imagine today what will become reality in another 5 or 10 years. Who could go back five or ten years and predict the stuff that’s now commonplace that hadn’t even been thought about as recently as that?
Imagine how long it will be before dark energy will be fueling cars and batteries…