My favorite example is how NATO recognized cyberspace as operational domain in 2016 — like no one there watched or heard about a movie from 1983 called „War Gam

My favorite example is how NATO recognized cyberspace as operational domain in 2016 — like no one there watched or heard about a movie from 1983 called „War Games”. I think you vastly overestimate speed with which people acknowledge new facts. Second best is only Catholic Church fully acknowledging heliocentric theories in 1992.