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Basically all of our technology it based on the manipulation of electromagnetism.
I doubt that possible discovery is exhausted at all, there are three other fundamental forces we don't know how to manipulate yet.
Hell there may be fundamental forces we are as yet unaware of.
Other than nuclear power and weapons; which liberate energy from the weak force. We don't use any other force directly.
At this stage, direct manipulation of the other fundamental forces, is science fiction. We don't know how..... yet.
Just to point out a, the first "modern" plastic, polystyrene, was discovered in 1839. The widespread use of plastics didn't occur till the 1950's....a full 110 years later. Carbon fibre was first developed in 1958, and is widely used today, less than 70 years later. I would say CF is more widely used today compared to plastics in the 1950's.
If you look at the very first thing that could be called a plastic, you'd need to go back around a thousand years.
Don't let perspective bias fool you, things are developing faster than ever.