Kinda but often times such research isn’t even “waiting on the shelf”. You can see that in the Iceberg paper which describes how earlier constructions optimized for PMEM Hw did a bad job because they were built against simulated hardware. In practice you need to actually iterate with real designs.

I doubt such designs will find practical uses (iceberg maybe but the pure math designs seem unlikely).

In 200 years this is going to be like when we discover yet another proof of Euler or Gauss, 20 years after a current mathematician arrived at the same result.

Or it could be like multipoint touch screens, early version of which were a solved problem in 1980s or earlier, and just needed compute power to catch up, which it did over subsequent decades.

Or it could be like code=data and homoiconity and other CS fundamentals that were figured out 40+ years ago, but are still mostly ignored by software industry/culture.