Do You Ever Think About Thinking? That's Time-Travel.

Science fiction is any imagined future enabled by the scientific method. Before the scientific method, imagined futures necessarily involved mystical belief, for too few objective colors had been collectively known to paint that sort of intellectual image into popular culture.

The theoretical parameters of the technological singularity will dramatically thrust the parameters of scientific speculation into an entirely new dimension as well. It is no longer fruitful to wonder if it will be possible to end fossil-fuel dependence or explore distant heavenly bodies, because it is only a matter of time.

Speculation thereafter will be the Ouroboros of introspection and metaphysics that will require endless possibilities to incubate - endless possibilities brought about by utter, utter change.