Most of the advances in electronics, lasers, microscopy, and nuclear engineering is based on QM, however those advances seem to have been incidental to the spooky stuff. Quantum communication and computing advances are revolutionary and we are just getting started. My SO always says that we don't even know what we don't know.
"we don't even know what we don't know" because of quantum woo (see previous string), and thru that open door, warp drive and every sci fi nonsense enters. A general purpose quantum computer has factored 143 ... an awesome accomplishment! And don't we have fusion reactors powering our cars yet? If we did, would a car accident result in a thermonuclear explosion? Starting with H G Wells sci fi is actually communist propaganda, not innocent entertainment. Right now, Klaus Schwab wants to turn the world into Morlocks and Eloi. Thru scientism, not science.
Yes, per Jules Verne/Karl Marx, communism is made inevitable by technical/medical progress? But what if this non-political progress is finite? And why is it tied to dubious social/political progress based on the French Revolution? Moore's Law ended 10 years ago. You won't be having sub-atomic cell phones ... the keypad would be impractical ;-)) Star Cops did feature a one of a kind cell phone/internet terminal. That was in the tradition of Jules Verne. But Carl Sagan was one of the Jewish atheist technocrats pushing this collectivist fantasy.
Independent anyons IMHO, so far, are like super-strings. A cross between a boson and a fermion (two families of quantum statistics). They do exist as part of a potential architecture of quantum computing, as a phenomenon inside matter, not in empty space. Phonons for example exist as quantized sound (in matter). Same with my post on magnetic monopoles. Collective behavior happens with matter, and does matter. But don't think of these as elementary particles.
We knew there were free electrons because J J Thompson actually produced them in a reproducible way, in a lab. Not because he had some beautiful brain child/math he was enamored of. Let someone produce a stream of anyons, or super-strings and I will believe them. Of course, electrons as dependent, inside a crystal lattice, is very useful indeed (all solid state electronics is based on it). They are able to fulfill both roles.
