> it’s much more mundane than other aspects Is it though? It brings to mind the humorous essay that attempted to extrapolate in a hard sci-fi manner the conseq

> it’s much more mundane than other aspects Is it though? It brings to mind the humorous essay that attempted to extrapolate in a hard sci-fi manner the consequences of the existence of phasers and teleporters in star trek. It seems likely to be a mundane usage which is merely the tip of the iceberg for an absurdly powerful technology. > the hard speculative physics kind Apologies if I'm off the mark but just to be clear you don't need speculative real world physics for a "hard" take. All you need is an author dedicated enough to invent his own set of rules and then faithfully "simulate" it. It's just that most authors are lazy and go with speculative real world physics as the base. At some point I started seeing people conflate hard sci-fi with real world physics and I'm not sure where that came from.