It's pretty funny when you call something science fiction when you live in a world that for all intents and purposes is science fiction. The forum we're communicating on is science fiction. Getting in a car and traveling at 100 mph for hours burning the ghosts of creatures millions of years old is science fiction. The pixies in your wall plug you enslave to move heavy things are science fiction. The medicine you take to stay alive is science fiction. Getting in a plane and flying around the world in hours is science fiction. Launching rockets to space is science fiction. How far do I need to go on?

Science fantasy is something that can't happen because the laws of physics won't allow it. Hard science fiction is just something we've not made work yet.

The stuff around evolutionary algorithms is things that have a workable means of occurring. Emergence in evolutionary algorithms has been shown to occur again and again and again.

Unlike communicating via glass panels processing information at near-lightspeed, relayed by fiber optic cables laid down across thousands of miles of ocean floor, processed in datacenters filled to the brim with transistors etched at atom-scale.

You better start believing in science fiction; you’re surrounded by it.