The aether idea was floating around since the ancient Greeks lol

Weird you'd call ideas that long predate rationalism and the scientific method science

Enshittification is an inevitable consequence of the economic system we're living in

To be fair to them, they were put in a state of "siege communism" pretty much from the get go. It's a hard thing to think of solutions to for any country, especially while the US is being the US

"When when"

Building up imaginary in fiction isn't the opposite of being concise

Reddit can give quality tech responses though. The voting system on SO would be sufficient.