The development of warp drive, surfing across space on a superluminal wave of compressed spacetime, was of course revolutionary. Humans began to gradually feel their way out into the cosmos.

But to be honest, more people’s lives were changed by another application of warp physics. The warp field projectors fitted to a number of notorious structures in earth cities finally ended the aggravating traffic disruption of trucks getting stuck under low bridges.

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@Unixbigot SF so rarely discusses the really important applications of tech, like gravity manipulation for baking, or lightsabers for tree pruning, or dimensional portals for dealing with clogged plumbing. Instead they're content with whizzing around in spaceships. It's all very distracting and noisy.
@oddhack The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide film did this well, with the toaster-knife lightsaber. Or was it the TV version? Can’t recall.