Let's just say, hypothetically, that technology was discovered that allowed warp bubbles to be created with relatively small amounts of energy-what would the consequences be? Would you expect that the whole space revolution would accelerate 100 fold and we'd have full blown colonization within a decade at most? I would worry about destabilization-would a warp bubble ship potentially destablize MAD and potentially trigger some ugly international political maneuvering?

I feel like this is a real life Outside Context Problem-it would hit our societies like a brick. All the systems we have now for space are totally incapable of dealing with the pioneer rush that would explode outward.