Hits different when you're old enough to have experienced multiple times when something that would've been considered incomprehensible sci-fi when you were younger becomes common technology, those moments happen and your brain has to go through the process of "okay this actually real now" and in a sense it humbles you to the possibility that you're probably going to have that experience again at some point if you live long enough, ie concepts that once seemed very far fetched being introduced as totally real, at this point laser weapons don't seem that crazy