[perl4ever]

But it's a misunderstanding. I see things like this space drive as different, because they're supposed to be based on physics that hasn't been figured out.

Real revolutionary and amazing technology comes from physics that came way before, which in turn came from math that was even older.

Today people mostly can't imagine what the world was like, technologically and socially, a hundred years ago when relativity and quantum mechanics were on the cusp of being developed.

The things which will transform or devastate the world in the next few decades have been growing for the last 50 years even if most haven't noticed. It will look like coming out of nowhere, but it won't be in the way that this space drive is.