like i was rereading that one book (yknow the one with the sentient nebula??) and halfway through it hit me that the author straight-up made up a pseudo-theory of quantum entanglement just to explain how the alien ship worked. and i cant tell if thats genius or lazy lol like sure its fiction but then i googled it and people were debating if it could be real?? which is wild bc its so far out there but also kinda makes you wonder if someday well discover something like that for real. theres this tiny part of me thats like maybe scifi authors are secretly onto something... or maybe im giving them too much credit and they just needed a handwave for the plot hahaha. anyway i know this is supposed to be about tech but i cant help thinking how much emerging tech feels like it started as some scifi writers fever dream like holograms or ai interfaces — did we get those ideas from star trek or did star trek just predict them??? its so weird to think about. also side note: does anyone else love when scifi books drop super specific made-up math or jargon and you have no idea if its real or not but it sounds so cool you just roll with it??? cause same.