This is serious speculation about things that might happen, whether tomorrow or in centuries. For example:
Any time now: Researchers find AI can detect lies. The program AI Lie was 98% successful in determining whether research subjects were lying or telling the truth. Another program, Factor Fiction, was nearly as effective at deciding whether a person was making up a story or recounting an actual event.
In a few decades: The Grand Unification Theory opens loophole for faster-than-light travel - but don't start planning to build starships. Analysis of the theory has revealed that it would be possible for a particle following a closed path to travel faster than light as long as the average velocity of the particle never exceeds c. So, for example, if an electron is carried to a star at no more than half the speed of light, it could return instantaneously. However, this won't work for macroscopic objects since any change (i.e., a single atom undergoes radioactive decay) would create a new particle that would block the effect.