The audience that doesn't look bored

I teach physics at a secondary school in Ibadan and I have taught quantum mechanics to sixteen-year-olds for eleven years and not one cohort has looked bored during the double-slit experiment. This tells me something about the audience for hard science fiction that the genre sometimes forgets. The SF I write starts with a correct scientific premise and asks what it means for people who are not scientists. My current manuscript is set in Lagos in 2058 and involves a quantum communication technology that works and what happens to privacy and evidence when it is in widespread use. The technical extrapolation is defensible. The human story is what I've been working on for two years. I read a great deal of Kim Stanley Robinson, Ted Chiang, and Nnedi Okofor. The combination of rigour and warmth in all three is what I'm attempting, with the specific addition of a West African context that I don't see represented enough in hard SF. My students know I write. One of them asked if she could read the draft. I told her not yet. She said she'd wait. I'm going to hold her to it.