3) Just like science fiction increasingly is becoming science facts, ancient artifacts, mysterious excavations and its lost knowledge gradually hits closer to the surface as well providing more connections and context of what is below the tip of the iceberg than ever before.
Both these things nowadays are increasingly getting close to meet each other in present day no matter how big the contrasts of both are. This also means that what once was free in the early beginning, which later have been kept in solid captivity, is now heading out to be released again after all those years.