Science Fiction is a legitimate way to get a glimpse of the future.
Of course not every scenario comes to fruition and not everything plays out in the reality we share as it may have been envisioned.
Authors will always endeavour to craft their story’s to try and make them entertaining so as to engage an imagined reader.
As in ”true life biography” liberties are taken with time compression, gods eye view and the wisdom and the redrawing of consequence allowed with the benefit of hindsight as well as the imperative of shaping the narrative to fit the authors contention.
However the standard technique revolves around the “what if” scenario whereby the author engages their creative skills with just one or perhaps only a few major impositions upon accepted reality and then proceeds to extrapolate likely consequence.
Ergo, the vast majority of the ‘fiction’ is based on the scientifically verified reality as best it is known/understood at the time of writing.
Many science fiction writers come from the ranks of the various branches of science itself or if not have made an authoritive study of their fields of interest.
So it does not surprise me to hear that prospective authors will be interested in cutting edge technology such as Akida.
It will no doubt become a part of the weft and weave of future imagined worlds as it will be incorporated within ours.
You can just picture PvdM portrayed as Dr Frankenstein, cranking up the Van de Graaff generator:
"It's alive! ... It's alive!"