hello @rbalzan79,
in science fiction movies lasers are used to send information, nowadays the use of lasers is no longer science fiction but is used daily in the military field to destroy missiles and very soon they will be used for communications on a planetary level, no doubt that what was once science fiction is now a reality as the use of lasers or space exploration, this century will be one of the most remembered by the human being is a century that will mark a before and after in technology and the way humans live and communicate.