Hey, this story is 7 years old!
And they still haven't built the damn thing?
:)
Remember that it took over 100 years from neuton's therories of splitting atoms until Einstein cracked it and we build the bomb. Warp drive is probably only 60-100 years away from us.
Actually, it was just built and tested. Turned out they were wrong about the time dilation stuff, and wound up back in 1999.